Power and Electricity Desk Academy
Twenty courses. Beginner to advanced. No course assumes what it has not taught.
The learner must be able to take a wholesale hedge that looks profitable on a block basis, trace the realised loss back to hourly shape, forecast error, plant outages and imbalance settlement, and state how much of the gap each cause contributed.
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 | Electricity foundations | |||
| 01 | Electricity Business & Commercial Flows | 1/10 | none | The physical and contractual chain from generator to consumer and the points at which title, risk and money change hands. |
| 02 | MW, MWh, Time Blocks & Load Shapes | 1/10 | 01 | The conversion between capacity, energy and time blocks, and the reading of a half-hourly or hourly load shape. |
| 03 | Market Designs & Price Formation | 2/10 | 01, 02 | How a given market design clears a price and what that clearing price does and does not represent. |
| 04 | Generation Economics & Merit Order | 2/10 | 02, 03 | The build of a unit variable cost stack and the ranking of plant into a merit order. |
| B | Market execution | |||
| 05 | Wholesale Contracts & Trading Products | 3/10 | 02, 03, 04 | The contractual architecture of baseload, peak, block and shaped wholesale products and the obligations each creates. |
| 06 | Day-Ahead Trading & Auctions | 3/10 | 03, 05 | The preparation and placement of day-ahead auction bids and the interpretation of the auction clearing outcome. |
| 07 | Intraday Trading & Position Adjustment | 4/10 | 02, 05, 06 | The adjustment of an open position inside the delivery day against revised demand forecasts and plant availability. |
| 08 | Metering, Imbalance Settlement & Reconciliation | 4/10 | 02, 06, 07 | The metering-to-settlement data chain and imbalance cash-out, taught as one national arrangement among several and never as a universal electricity-market rule. |
| C | Commercial exposure and hedging | |||
| 09 | Congestion, Nodes & Transmission Exposure | 5/10 | 03, 04, 06 | Locational price separation, nodal and zonal basis, and exposure created by transmission constraints. |
| 10 | Thermal Generation, Spark Spreads & Tolling | 5/10 | 03, 04, 05 | Spark and dark spread construction, heat rate sensitivity and tolling agreement economics. |
| 11 | Renewable Capture Prices & Curtailment | 5/10 | 02, 03, 09 | Capture price, profile loss and curtailment economics for weather-driven generation. |
| 12 | Forwards, Futures & Shape Hedging | 5/10 | 05, 09, 10, 11 | Hedging a shaped position with forward and futures instruments and quantifying the residual a block hedge leaves behind. |
| 13 | Collateral, Margin & Working Capital for a Power Book | 6/10 | 05, 06, 12 | The collateral, initial and variation margin, and working capital cycle that a hedged power book consumes. |
| D | Specialised products and regional practice | |||
| 14 | Industrial Supply & Shape Pricing | 6/10 | 02, 12, 13 | Pricing a shaped industrial supply contract, including volume tolerance, pass-through and credit terms. |
| 15 | Ancillary Services & Capacity Markets | 7/10 | 03, 04, 07 | Ancillary service products and capacity market obligations as a combined revenue and obligation stack. |
| 16 | Negative Prices, Scarcity & Options | 7/10 | 04, 12, 15 | Negative pricing, scarcity pricing and the option value of flexible assets and contracts. |
| 17 | Regional Power Market Specialisation | 8/10 | 03, 08, 09 | The method for reading an unfamiliar national market's codes, rules and settlement conventions and restating them in desk terms. |
| 18 | Cross-Border Power & Interconnector Economics | 8/10 | 03, 09, 17 | Cross-border flow, interconnector capacity allocation and price coupling economics. |
| E | Portfolio and desk integration | |||
| 19 | Generation, Supply & Hedge Portfolios | 9/10 | 11, 12, 13, 14 | The consolidation of generation, supply and hedge books into a single portfolio view with aggregate risk and management reporting. |
| 20 | Integrated Power Desk Simulation | 10/10 | 08, 12, 16, 19 | Running a full power desk under live-equivalent conditions and reconciling a hedge result against realised settlement end to end. |
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 Power Desk Master Programme does the opposite: it runs the whole electricity 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.