Course 03 of 20 · Power Origination and PPA Desk Academy

Generation Profiles & Buyer Demand

Stage A, Origination foundations. Level 2 of 10.

Reading half-hourly generation and consumption data to describe a renewable production profile against a buyer's load profile.

113 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 01, Course 02

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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

11 modules · 113 chapters

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

M0 Two Profiles and One Question Ch 1-9
  1. The Pair of Profiles Every Origination Enquiry Reduces To
  2. Why a Contract Needs a Described Profile Before a Price
  3. Describing a Fit Against Pricing a Fit
  4. The Three Seats That Read the Same Two Series
  5. Settlement Periods Are a Market Convention, Not a Universal
  6. What a Profile Description Is Not Allowed to Assume
  7. The Vocabulary of Fit This Desk Uses Daily
  8. Reading an Enquiry That Arrives Without a Profile
  9. What the Overlay Settles and What It Hands On
M1 The Data Request and What Comes Back Ch 10-19
  1. The Half-Hourly Data Request Letter
  2. Who Actually Holds a Corporate Buyer's Consumption Data
  3. Consent, Confidentiality and a Buyer's Load Data
  4. How Much History to Ask For and Why
  5. The Developer's Production Data Pack
  6. File Formats, Units and the Hour That Went Missing
  7. The Vintage and Provenance Line Every Series Carries
  8. Sites Without an Interval Meter
  9. Building the Data Room for a Profile Discussion
  10. A Data Request Answered End to End
M2 Describing a Buyer's Load for a Contract Ch 20-30
  1. The Load Profile as a Contractual Object
  2. Where the Buyer's Boundary Sits
  3. Gross Demand and the Net Reading After On-Site Solar
  4. The Portion of Demand Already Committed Elsewhere
  5. Reading a Manufacturing Buyer's Shift Pattern Off the Data
  6. An Office Portfolio's Load and Its Flat Middle
  7. A Data Centre's Load and Why Flatness Changes the Conversation
  8. A Retail Chain's Many Small Sites Described as One Load
  9. The Buyer's Weather Sensitivity, Measured Not Assumed
  10. The One-Page Load Description a Developer Will Read
  11. Two Years of One Buyer's Data Described Side by Side
M3 Describing a Renewable Asset's Output for a Contract Ch 31-41
  1. What the Seller Is Actually Offering to Deliver
  2. An Onshore Wind Site's Output Through One Year
  3. An Offshore Wind Site Described Beside an Onshore One
  4. A Solar Project's Day Described for a Buyer's Negotiator
  5. Run-of-River Hydro Output on a Weekly Clock
  6. Why an Asset's Metered History Starts Later Than Its Life
  7. The Difference Between What a Plant Makes and What It Sells
  8. Degradation and the Profile Twenty Years Out
  9. Availability, Outages and the Output That Did Not Arrive
  10. The One-Page Production Description a Buyer Will Read
  11. One Wind Farm and One Solar Farm Described to the Same Standard
M4 The Resource Evidence Behind a Production Profile Ch 42-51
  1. What an Energy Yield Assessment Actually Says
  2. Reading a P50 and a P90 Without Overclaiming
  3. Annual Exceedance Is Not Monthly Exceedance
  4. From a Yield Study to an Interval Series
  5. Measurement Campaigns and the Years Behind a Number
  6. Long-Term Adjustment and the Windy Decade
  7. The Inter-Annual Variation a Buyer Will Feel
  8. Loss Factors Between the Resource and the Meter
  9. Reading Someone Else's Resource Study Critically
  10. A Pre-Construction Profile Built From a Study
M5 Putting the Two Profiles on One Axis Ch 52-61
  1. One Time Axis or No Comparison
  2. Aligning a Half-Hourly Buyer With an Hourly Generator
  3. Time Zones When Buyer and Generator Sit in Different Countries
  4. The Clock-Change Day in a Profile Pair
  5. Period Start or Period End, and the Shift It Causes
  6. When the Generator Reports Finer Than the Buyer
  7. Leap Days, Holidays and Matching the Calendar
  8. The Overlay Table a Desk Actually Builds
  9. Sign Conventions in a Paired Overlay
  10. One Pair Aligned From Two Raw Files
M6 Measuring the Fit Ch 62-72
  1. Coverage Defined Without Ambiguity
  2. Matched Energy, Interval by Interval
  3. The Time-Matched Share and How to Quote It
  4. Surplus Intervals and How Much They Hold
  5. Deficit Intervals and the Residual Demand They Leave
  6. Hourly Matching Against Annual Matching
  7. Monthly Fit Behind an Acceptable Annual Fit
  8. The Fit Duration Curve for a Paired Overlay
  9. Peak Coincidence: What the Asset Does at the Buyer's Maximum
  10. The Fit Metrics Pack and What Each Line Answers
  11. One Pair Measured End to End
M7 Where the Mismatch Lives Ch 73-82
  1. Naming the Mismatch Before Allocating It
  2. The Solar Day Against the Evening Peak
  3. Night Demand No Solar Asset Can Reach
  4. Wind's Calm Spells Against a Continuous Buyer
  5. The Weekend Surplus a Weekday Buyer Creates
  6. The Summer Shutdown Meets the Summer Resource
  7. Winter Wind Against Winter Heating Demand
  8. The Mismatch Map Across a Day and a Year
  9. Describing a Mismatch Without Valuing It
  10. One Buyer, Three Candidate Assets, Mismatch Compared
M8 Sizing From the Profile Pair Ch 83-92
  1. The Sizing Question an Overlay Can Answer
  2. Sizing to an Annual Volume Target
  3. Sizing to a Time-Matched Target Instead
  4. Oversizing and the Surplus It Manufactures
  5. Undersizing Deliberately to Stay Inside the Load
  6. Two Technologies Beside One Load
  7. Storage Named and Deferred
  8. What Flexible Demand Does to a Fit
  9. A Sizing Table a Buyer Can Read
  10. Sizing One Deal Three Ways
M9 Profiles That Will Not Stay Still Ch 93-102
  1. Last Year's Load Is Not Next Decade's
  2. Weather Years and the Typical Year That Does Not Exist
  3. Electrification Changing a Buyer's Shape
  4. Efficiency, Site Closure and Demand That Shrinks
  5. A New Site Arriving Mid-Contract
  6. Rescaling a Buyer's Profile for Expected Growth
  7. Projecting an Asset's Output Forward Honestly
  8. The Fit Restated for Year One and Year Fifteen
  9. The Assumption Register That Travels With a Profile
  10. Reconciling a Described Fit Against What Happened
M10 The Profile Fit Note and Its Limits Ch 103-113
  1. The Profile Fit Note, Front to Back
  2. Writing for a Developer's Analyst
  3. Writing for a Buyer's Finance Team
  4. Charts That Describe and Charts That Mislead
  5. Answering the Five Questions a Buyer Always Asks
  6. A Worked Origination Case, Part One: The Brief and the Data
  7. A Worked Origination Case, Part Two: The Two Profiles Described
  8. A Worked Origination Case, Part Three: The Fit and the Note
  9. What a Described Profile Cannot Settle
  10. Where Data Ends and Judgement Begins
  11. What the Next Desks Expect You to Hand Over

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