Commodity extra learning - Power

Power Generation - Learn how power is generated around the world, renewable and non renewable energy sources, along with who are the major producers (countries and companies) by the different types of power generation

Learn how Power is transmitted around the world, along with the technologies and differences from country to country

Learn the complexity of planning and coordinating the generation and transmission of electricty to ensure supply meets demand every moment of every day.  The different markets, forecasting and load management, generation scheduling and optimization, tranmission constraints, grid balancing and blackouts.

Learn how traders make profits by buying and selling physical power, along with the different markets, hedging instruments and additional content on renewable energy credits and financial transmission rights.

Understand the profitability of  physical and financial power trades as they are evaluated daily against the market.

The global electricity market can be very volatile, lets dive through some of the techniques to evaluate your portfolio factoring market risks.  The series will go through stress testing, and different types of value at risk models that can be employed depending on several factors.

Deep dive into each of the physical and financial contracts, how specifically the settlement calculations are calculated

The counterparty credit risk series goes into detail on exposure measurements, tail and scenario risk, legal and structural risk along wth the overall market structure and credit framework.

Learn the roles of each company in the power market and the specific roles in each company.  Generators, Utilities (integrated or retail), Large Industrial and Commercial Consumers, Power Marketers, IPPs, Financial Institutions/Hedge Funds and more.

Dive deep into the different personas within trading, risk, scheduling and analytics; what their specific role is and how it ties to the overall company type.  Day-Ahead Trader, Real-Time Trader, Structured Trader, Weather Analyst, Data Scientist and loads more!

Learn what is needed from a data perspective for each persona to execute their role, what data is used to function in the role and where does the data come from