Electricity Trading on Spot and Futures Markets (cancelled)
Seminar details
How does trading work and how do prices arise?
On the spot market, controllable generation plants and consumers can optimise their sales revenues. With the increase in generation volumes from fluctuation renewable energy systems, trading volumes and the importance of the European short-term markets have been rising for years. At the same time, the rules and framework conditions keep changing. The futures market, on the other hand, is essential as a hedging instrument against fluctuating electricity prices on the spot market for many players in the energy industry. Solid knowledge of the concrete functioning of the common products (futures, forwards, options) and the various trading options is important in order to act successfully. This training provides basic knowledge about price mechanisms and influencing factors of the spot and futures markets and their interaction.
All content details can be found here for download in PDF format.
The registration at this seminar is no longer possible.
Date: 07. & 08. February 2024, 9:00 am to 12:30 pm
Registration deadline: 06. February 2024, 10:00 am
Price: 1050,– EUR p. P. plus GST, incl. seminar material (digital)
Plce: Live-Online-Training via Microsoft Teams (System requierements)
Please note: Participation in our training courses and workshops is only possible as employee of a company. Private individuals are excluded from participation.
- Professionals from trading, electricity marketing or balancing group management of conventional or RE plants
- Professionals from product development or business development of utilities, direct marketers and (virtual) electricity producers
- Professionals in portfolio, risk, schedule and load management and analysis
Your team has already gained some experience in the electric-ity industry. In the future, your company wants to play a stronger role in the area of trad-ing, analysis or aggregation of conventional or RE plants. Your boss is annoyed by high balancing energy costs, wants to launch a business model for short-term electricity trading or optimise your activities on the short-term electricity markets. Now your team needs information on how the futures market can be used for long-term hedging.
Your staff wants to know which options are available, which market segments are attractive or which access requirements have to be fulfilled. They also need background information on price developments and future trends on the spot and futures markets.
After this training, you will be able to
- explain interrelationships and price influences on the spot market,
- recognise the opportunities and risks on futures markets,
- calculate important key figures with the help of practical examples, and
- evaluate the potential of the different markets.
Agenda
Session 1: Brief introduction to market powers
- Overview of power markets: characteristics, motivation and participants
- Roles and tasks in the liberalised electricity market
- Control energy, balancing energy and their importance for balancing groups
Session 2: Short-term trading at EPEX Spot
- The day-ahead auction as reference market
- Price formation in the auction: marginal cost-based bids, visualized with the Merit-Order
- Price formation in continuous trading (incl. exercise)
- Price development along the weather forecast
Session 3: Potentials at the spot market
- Market liquidity: volume in intraday trade
- Specialties of 15-min. contracts - potential for short-term storage facilities?
- EU Market Coupling: Single Day-Ahead Coupling and Cross-Border Intraday Coupling
Session 4: The futures market for electricity trading
- Trading motivation: hedging, arbitrage and speculation
- Futures trading products: forwards, futures, options
- Opportunities and risks of the forward market products
- Latest price developments
Session 5: Trading strategies and procurement
- Customer segments: small customer vs. industry (SLP vs. RLM)
- Electricity procurement: full supply vs. structured pro-curement
- Procurement strategies: back-to-back, tranches, portfolio
Session 6: Outlook and market analysis
- Market developments in key commodity markets: emis-sions, natural gas, coal
- Insight into Energy Brainpool's modelling of power price scenarios
- Introduction to the risk assessment with fundamental scenario swarms
Please note: After registration you will receive an e-mail in your mailbox. Your registration is only binding when you activate it via the link in the email. Thank you very much!
Regardless of whether you are a career changer in the energy sector or a long-standing specialist: you are always faced with new challenges and need up-to-date specialist information to cope with your professional tasks. Time and money are tightly budgeted and leave little room for long-term energy market training.
We offer compact trainings for the efficient and sustainable transfer of current market knowledge. We work independently and regularly observe and analyse market changes - and pass on our findings and experience in the training courses. We bring complex correlations to the point in a clear and understandable way. The live trainings give you the opportunity to talk directly with our experts and participants from the industry.
We offer compact trainings for the efficient and sustainable transfer of current market knowledge. We work independently and regularly observe and analyse market changes - and pass on our findings and experience in the training courses. We bring complex correlations to the point in a clear and understandable way. The live trainings give you the opportunity to talk directly with our experts and participants from the industry.
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Luisa Castro
Assistant