Course 20 of 20 · Battery and Flexibility Desk Academy

Integrated Flexibility Simulation

Stage E, Investment, stress and integrated practice. Level 10 of 10.

Producing and defending a complete feasible revenue plan end to end under live constraints and review, which is the academy's assessed capstone against the depth test.

127 chapters · 12 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 09, Course 11, Course 17, Course 18

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

12 modules · 127 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 The Flexibility Portfolio You Inherit and the Plan You Must Sign Ch 1-12
  1. Countersigning the Revenue Mandate for a Flexibility Owner
  2. Why This Plan Is Marked on Feasibility Rather Than Revenue
  3. The Three Assets and the One Connection They Do Not Share
  4. The Commitments Your Predecessor Already Sold
  5. What a Cycle Is, According to the Agreement That Counts Them
  6. The Export Limit Written Into the Shared Site's Connection Terms
  7. The Optimiser Mandate You Did Not Negotiate
  8. The Board Date and the Covenant Sitting Behind It
  9. The Draft Revenue Plan and the Number On Its Front Page
  10. Four Tests Any Plan Must Pass Before Its Revenue Counts
  11. The Services You Declare You Will Not Sell
  12. The Four Fronts the Review Panel Will Open
M1 Auditing the Inherited Plan Against What the Assets Can Do Ch 13-23
  1. Rebuilding the Inherited Plan's Revenue From Its Own Inputs
  2. The Megawatt Sold Twice in the Same Settlement Period
  3. The Stored Energy Promised to Two Services at Once
  4. Counting the Cycles the Plan Actually Spends Against the Allowance
  5. The Export Limit the Co-Located Plan Ignores
  6. Round-Trip Losses the Plan Never Charged Anywhere
  7. The Aggregated Book's Availability Nobody Evidenced
  8. Reading the Measurement Rules Before Restating Any Availability Revenue
  9. The Plan's Revenue Restated After Four Failed Tests
  10. The Illustrative Feasible Baseline and What It Leaves Out
  11. Timestamping the Restated Plan Before Any New Commitment
M2 The Feasibility Test, Built So It Cannot Be Argued With Ch 24-33
  1. Opening the Power and Energy Ledgers for This Portfolio
  2. The State-of-Charge Trajectory the Ledgers Have to Carry
  3. Reserving Energy for a Duration Test Before Selling Any Spread
  4. The Upward and Downward Duties This Stack Holds in the Same Hours
  5. The Throughput Budget Written as a Monthly Drawdown
  6. Netting the Connection Envelope Against the Generator's Priority
  7. Three Services That Pass Separately and Fail Together
  8. Running the Feasibility Screen With the Revenue Column Hidden
  9. The Ledger Signed Off as the Plan's Single Source of Truth
  10. Scoring the Restated Plan on Feasibility Alone
M3 The Services You Bid For, and the One You Decline Ch 34-44
  1. Four Service Opportunities and One Finite Asset
  2. Bidding the Response Tender Inside the Energy You Reserved
  3. The Capacity Obligation That Pays Little and Forecloses Much
  4. The Arbitrage Spread That Pays Only When the Response Does
  5. The Industrial Customer's Interruption Offer, Priced Against the Battery
  6. Ranking the Four on Feasible Contribution, Not Headline Rate
  7. The Best Paying Service You Decline, in Writing
  8. The Tender You Win at a Volume You Did Not Want
  9. Committing the Service Stack and Naming Its Binding Constraint
  10. The Commitment Set Examined Before Any Delivery Period Opens
  11. Graded on the Stack With the Realised Prices Withheld
M4 The Plan That Has to Be Cut Back Ch 45-54
  1. The Plan Passes on Revenue and Fails on Throughput
  2. Which Commitment to Shed When Every One Is Signed
  3. Buying Your Way Out of the Capacity Obligation
  4. Re-Declaring a Lower Availability to the Response Counterparty
  5. Why Paying Non-Delivery Charges Is Not a Way Out
  6. Asking the Supplier to Move Allowance Between Years
  7. Cutting the Aggregated Book Rather Than the Grid-Scale Unit
  8. The Cut-Back Plan and the Revenue It No Longer Claims
  9. Telling the Board the Number Has Fallen, and Why It Had To
  10. The Cut-Back Defended Against Someone Who Wants the Old Number
M5 Delivery: the Month the Plan Meets the Market Ch 55-65
  1. The First Delivery Week Against the Signed Ledger
  2. The Response Event Called Three Times in One Day
  3. Re-Optimising Intraday Without Breaking the Reserved Energy
  4. The Optimiser Dispatches Outside the Mandate You Hold
  5. A Network Instruction Cuts Export at the Shared Site
  6. The Solar Peak Filling the Connection You Had Counted On
  7. The Industrial Customer Declines an Interruption It Sold You
  8. Chairing the Operations Call With Four Counterparties Listening
  9. Rebuilding the Rest of the Month Inside What Remains
  10. What the First Month Took From the Throughput Budget
  11. The Delivery Month Examined Against the Plan It Departed From
M6 Settlement, and the Revenue That Did Not Arrive Ch 66-75
  1. The Settlement Statement Against the Revenue the Plan Expected
  2. Availability Paid at a Lower Factor Than You Declared
  3. A Performance Score That Reduces Two Months of Payment
  4. Metering at the Shared Connection Credits the Wrong Asset
  5. Three Defensible Revenue Numbers From One Delivery Month
  6. Attributing the Revenue Gap to Four Named Causes
  7. The Claim You Raise and the One You Decide Not To
  8. The Optimiser's Fee Calculated on a Base You Dispute
  9. Signing the Month's Revenue Position With One Dispute Open
  10. The Reconciliation Examined Before the Dispute Resolves
M7 Event: the Throughput You Have Already Spent Ch 76-85
  1. Event: A Volatile Fortnight the Plan Had Priced as Revenue
  2. The Cycles That Fortnight Consumed, Measured Properly
  3. Your Own Monthly Drawdown Leaves Nothing for the Winter
  4. The Retention Test Falling Due Inside the Overspend
  5. Declining Revenue to Protect the Retention Undertaking
  6. The Retention Claim You Weaken by Dispatching Through the Allowance
  7. Renegotiating the Allowance With the Supplier as Counterparty
  8. Owning the Overspend in a Single Number
  9. The Correct Restraint That Cost the Year Its Best Month
  10. Scored on What Your Own Monitoring Already Showed
M8 Event: Two Services Called in the Same Half Hour Ch 86-95
  1. Event: A Response Instruction During a Capacity Stress Notice
  2. Which Obligation Ranks First When Both Are Firm
  3. The Priority You Never Wrote Into Either Contract
  4. Delivering One and Failing the Other, With Penalties Counted
  5. Telling Both Counterparties Before Either Reads the Meter
  6. The Energy You Reserved and the Reason It Was Not There
  7. Re-Pricing the Stack Once the Conflict Has Been Observed
  8. The Conflict Clause You Draft for Next Year's Contracts
  9. Graded Blind on the Simultaneous Call
  10. Rebuilding the Reserved Energy Policy After a Real Collision
M9 The Contracted Layer and the Counterparties Holding It Ch 96-105
  1. Event: The Tolling Counterparty Disputes the Availability Basis
  2. What the Toll Pays Regardless of What the Market Does
  3. The Floor That Sits Below Your Fixed Cost
  4. Reading the Guarantee Terms Before Claiming Anything Under Them
  5. The Merchant Share the Plan Relied On, and the Quarter It Did Not Pay
  6. Event: The Optimiser Gives Notice in the Middle of the Year
  7. Running the Plan With No Route to Market for a Fortnight
  8. The Replacement Mandate You Can Actually Sign in Time
  9. Owning the Cost of the Route-to-Market Gap
  10. The Contracted Layer Examined Without the Merchant Upside
M10 The Annual Plan Rebuilt and Issued Ch 106-116
  1. The Year Rebuilt From Three Delivered Months and Nine Planned
  2. The Four Tests Re-Run on the Full Year
  3. The Augmentation Case the Overspend Now Argues For
  4. The Replacement Decision You Decline to Take This Year
  5. The Contracted and Merchant Mix the Plan Now Carries
  6. Sensitivity Run Only on the Inputs the Year Proved Binding
  7. The Plan You Would Sign and the Plan the Lender Will Fund
  8. Two Plans, One Signature, and the Difference Explained
  9. Issuing the Plan With Its Binding Constraint on the Front Page
  10. What Issuing the Plan Makes Irreversible
  11. The Mandate You Countersigned, Against What the Portfolio Now Owes
M11 The Defence, and What One Simulated Year Could Not Test Ch 117-127
  1. Auditing the Issued Plan Against Its Own Capacity Ledger
  2. Tracing One Commitment From Ledger to Settlement Statement
  3. The Reservation You Logged and Never Wrote Into a Commitment
  4. Two Pages for Whoever Takes the Flexibility Seat Next
  5. The Panel Takes the Capacity Ledger and the Megawatt Counted Once
  6. The Panel Takes the Reserved Energy and the Duration Test
  7. The Panel Takes the Throughput Budget and the Overspend
  8. The Panel Takes the Shared Connection and the Generator's Priority
  9. The Panel Takes the Cut-Back and the Commitment You Shed
  10. The Three-Year Spread Forecast You Decline to Supply
  11. What One Simulated Flexibility Year Could Not Test

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