Biofuels and SAF Desk Academy
Twenty courses. Beginner to advanced. No course assumes what it has not taught.
The learner must be able to take one renewable fuels book and reconcile four things against each other, the physical fuel margin, the sustainability evidence that supports the volume, the environmental entitlements the volume generates, and the claim passed to the end customer, and explain where the four stop agreeing.
20 courses · 100 to 130 chapters each · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · self-paced
Twenty courses in dependency order
A course may only assume capability taught by a lower-numbered course, and the level column never falls as you move down the table.
| # | Course | Level | Builds on | What this course owns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Market foundations | |||
| 01 | Biofuels & SAF Business | 1/10 | none | The map of the renewable fuels value chain and the roles, counterparties and revenue sources a desk sits between. |
| 02 | Feedstocks, Pathways & Commercial Yields | 1/10 | 01 | Feedstock classes, conversion pathways, and the mass and energy yield arithmetic that turns an input tonne into saleable product. |
| 03 | Pricing, Units & Value Components | 2/10 | 01, 02 | Unit conversion discipline and the decomposition of a delivered price into physical, logistics and attribute components. |
| 04 | Mandates, Incentives & Regional Markets | 2/10 | 01, 03 | How obligation and incentive schemes are constructed in general form and how regional schemes differ in design, without asserting any scheme's current settings. |
| B | Supply, evidence and acceptance | |||
| 05 | Feedstock Sourcing & Contracts | 3/10 | 02, 03, 04 | Feedstock contract terms, specification clauses, pricing mechanisms and supplier obligations. |
| 06 | Certification & Chain of Custody | 3/10 | 02, 04, 05 | Voluntary and regulatory certification scheme mechanics and the custody models that carry sustainability characteristics along a supply chain. |
| 07 | Mass Balance & Sustainability Declarations | 4/10 | 03, 05, 06 | Mass balance accounting across a reporting period and the construction, issue and correction of sustainability declarations for a consignment. |
| 08 | Quality, Logistics & Customer Acceptance | 4/10 | 02, 05, 07 | Specification testing, blending constraints, movement and storage practice, and the acceptance or rejection decision at the receiving point. |
| C | Funding and environmental entitlements | |||
| 09 | Working Capital, Prepayment & Trade Credit | 5/10 | 03, 05, 08 | The funding cycle of a renewable fuels book: prepayment and advance structures, borrowing base treatment of feedstock, inventory and entitlements, counterparty credit limits and collateral. |
| 10 | RIN Operations & Exposure | 5/10 | 04, 07, 09 | Generation, separation, retirement and reporting of renewable identification numbers, and the position and invalidation exposure a credit book carries. |
| 11 | Low-Carbon Fuel Credit Economics | 5/10 | 04, 07, 10 | Carbon intensity scoring and the credit quantity and value arithmetic of deficit and credit generation under intensity-based programmes. |
| 12 | European Compliance Practice | 6/10 | 04, 06, 07, 11 | European compliance operating practice: verification, reporting, audit evidence and national implementation differences across European schemes. |
| D | Fuel margin and customer claims | |||
| 13 | Ethanol Economics & Hedging | 6/10 | 03, 10, 11 | The ethanol crush and blending economics and the grain, energy and ethanol hedge construction around it. |
| 14 | Biodiesel & Renewable Diesel Economics | 7/10 | 02, 10, 13 | The biodiesel and renewable diesel production margin, feedstock substitution economics, and the co-processing and capacity decisions behind it. |
| 15 | SAF Offtake & Airline Procurement | 7/10 | 08, 12, 14 | Offtake contracting with aviation buyers: volume and premium structures, blend limit handling, delivery points and buyer procurement process. |
| 16 | SAF Book-and-Claim Administration | 8/10 | 06, 07, 15 | Administration of downstream claim transfer: registry accounts, claim issue and retirement, double-counting controls, and customer reporting of a claim detached from the physical molecule. |
| E | Portfolio protection and integrated practice | |||
| 17 | Cross-Hedging & Margin Protection | 8/10 | 10, 13, 14 | Proxy hedge selection, basis and correlation risk measurement, and margin protection across a combined physical and entitlement book. |
| 18 | Tolling & Supply Structuring | 9/10 | 05, 09, 14 | Tolling and processing agreements and multi-party supply structures, with the financing terms now taught earlier applied rather than introduced. |
| 19 | Feedstock Competition, Fraud Indicators & Disruption | 9/10 | 05, 06, 16 | Competitive feedstock pressure, fraud and misdeclaration indicators, and disruption response across supply, evidence and claims. |
| 20 | Integrated Renewable-Fuels Simulation | 10/10 | 12, 16, 17, 18 | Running one book under live conditions, reconciling physical margin, evidence, entitlements and customer claims into a single defensible position. |
Every course states the capability it owns. The brochure carries the same table plus the chapter list behind each course, which is the quickest way to find the course that teaches the thing you cannot currently do.
The whole desk end to end, in one programme
The twenty courses take one capability at a time, in dependency order, for someone building from the ground up. The Biofuels & Renewable Fuels Desk Master Programme does the opposite: it runs the whole renewable fuels desk front to back in a single sequence, for someone who already works on a desk and wants the shape of the job quickly rather than the long route.
Take whichever matches your starting point. They cover the same ground and several of the numbered courses draw on the same material.
Take one course, or the whole pathway
Each course stands alone. Taken in order, the twenty build one desk capability from no prior knowledge.