In-house Seminars and Training

Level: Basic seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Where does our energy come from - meaning and terms
• Fundamentals of the liberalised electricity market in Germany
• Energy procurement and wholesale energy trading
• The energy transition in Germany - importance for the energy industry

The seminar can be combined with the basic seminars gas and energy industry to a comprehensive 3-day seminar.

Download info sheet basics of the electricity industry

Level: Basic seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Basics of gas supply
• Procurement management for natural gas
• Structured gas purchase in Germany
• Schedules and balancing group management
• Sales and distribution management

The seminar can be combined with the basic seminars electricity industry and energy industry into a comprehensive 3-day seminar.

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Level: Basic seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Structure of the energy industry – meaning and terms
  
• Electricity and gas – value chain and framework
  
• Energy wholesale and procurement management
• The energy transition in Germany – significance for the energy industry

The seminar can be developed together with the basic seminars electricity
industry and gas industry to the comprehensive 3-day seminar.

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Level: Basic seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Short overview of the liberalised electricity and gas market
• Electricity and gas procurement
• How is the sales price calculated? The interface between procurement and sales
• Selected sales products and their implementation in procurement

This seminar is ideally suited as an introductory seminar. It can be upgraded to an expert seminar with add-on and extension modules based on the participants’ requirements – optionally also for the gas market.

Download info sheet Energy Industry Know-How for Sales

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 or 2 days
Topics:

• Basics of electricity trading
• Short-term electricity trading on spot markets – Day-ahead auction and Intraday trading
• Long-term electricity trading on futures markets
• Current developments and challenges in the electricity marketd
• Excursus Portfolio and Risk Management

Our simulation games on electricity trading support the ideal learning effect by means of a practical and playful application of theoretically imparted knowledge.

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Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 or 2 days
Topics:

• Brief introduction to electricity trading
• Intraday trading on EPEX Spot
• Marketing of capacities on the control reserve market
• Balance management and balancing energy price

Our simulation game intraday supports the optimal learning effect by means of practical and playful application of the theoretically imparted knowledge.

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Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Liberalised energy markets and electricity trading
• Basics of electricity trading
• Electricity trading on the futures market– buyer’s side
• Electricity trading on the futures market– seller’s side

Our futures trading simulation game supports the ideal learning effect by means of a practical and playful application of theoretically imparted knowledge.

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Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics: 

• The liberalised natural gas market in Germany
• Fundamentals of gas trading
• Nomination and balancing group management
• Price development and influential factors

Our simulation game gas trading supports the optimal learning effects by means of a practical and playful application of theoretically imparted knowledge.

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Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

Part I: Individual background knowledge

• Basic knowledge of electricity trading and price influences

Part I: Interpreting forecasts and realising limit

• Basic of price forecast
• Price forecast at the spot market
• Forecasts in the futures market
• Long-term price forecasts with fundamental models

Our simulation game futures trading supports the ideal learning effect by means of practical and playful application of the theoretical imparted knowledge.

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Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Introduction to procurement management
• Chart analysis and technical analysis compared to other forecasting methods
• Introduction to different chart formations
• Evaluation of technical signals
• Trade and procurement decisions in the current market situation

In combination with the seminars and/or simulation games on electricity trading and futures market, this seminar is completed by basic and practical knowledge.

Download info sheet procurement strategies with chart analysis

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Introduction to risk management
• Risk assessment and risk indicators
• Deriving strategies for risk management
• Risk management with derivative trading products
• Implementation of risk management processes
• Summary and concluding discussion

Our simulation game futures trading supports the ideal learning effect by means of practical and playful application of the theoretically imparted knowledge.

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Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Electricity market & pricing today and tomorrow
• Overview of long-term electricity supply contracts / PPAs
• Opportunities and risks of PPAs

Supplement your market knowledge with the seminars electricity market knowledge for e-mobility or sales options for battery storage.

Download Info sheet PPAs in Germany and Europe: Ü21, Post-EEG und Co

Level: Basic seminar
Duration: 1 or 2 days
Topics:

• Electricity market & pricing today and tomorrow
• Sales models with direct EEG funding
• Sales models without direct EEG funding
• Discussion and market outlook

This seminar can be complemented with the seminar the German renewable energies act (EEG) 2017.

Download info sheet electricity market knowledge renewable energies

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Introduction to the electricity market
• Fundamentals of electricity trading
• The electricity market and e-mobility
• Discourse and market outlook

Our simulation games for electricity trading support the optimal learning effect by practical and playful application of the theoretically imparted knowledge.

Download Info sheet electricity market knowledge for e-mobility

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Introduction to Blockchain technology
• Business model development
• Current blockchain business models in the energy industry
• Road map for your own business model

Supplement your market knowledge about the future energy system with the seminar electricity market knowledge for e-mobility.

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Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Why do we need a coupling of markets and holistic business models?
• The coupled energy market
• Discussion

Supplement your market knowledge with the seminars sales options for battery storage systems and electricity market knowledge for e-mobility.

Download info sheet heat, electricity and transport

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Overview storage technologies: technical parameters, investment costs
• Legal framework
• Relevant markets for battery storage
• Spot Market: day-ahead and intraday
• Comparison of sales strategies and revenues
• Own generation and optimization of wind and PV demand

Supplement your market knowledge with the seminar electricity market knowledge for e-mobility.

Download Info sheet sales options for battery storage systems

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Enewable energies in the electricity market
• Flexibility options and storage in the electricity market
• Sector coupling: energy transition in the electricity and transport sectors
• Coal phase out and its consequences
• Accompanying discussion with participant focus

In combination with the seminars PPAs in Germany and Europe as well as sales options for battery storage systems, this seminar is supplemented by detailed knowledge.

Download info sheet future of the electricity market

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Rally on the CO₂ market: basics and backgrounds
• Climate protection now – Coal phase-out in Europe
• Dependencies, interactions and consequences for the electricity market
• Outlook: which upheavals are still to come? What upheavals still lie ahead?

The workshop can be booked as a one-day seminar or individual topics also as 2-hour lecture.

Download Info sheet the turnaround has begun: CO₂ prices and phase-out

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Fundamentals of the CO₂ market
• Distribution of emission rights in the past and future
• The current trading period of the EU ETS
• Where are we going? Market, reforms and political decisions

Complement your market knowledge with the seminar Introduction to Electricity Trading.

Download info sheet Introduction CO₂ certificate trading

Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Labelling of electricity from renewable energies
• Guarantees of Origin in detail
• Green electricity as a sales product – energy mix disclosure
• Procurement and trading of Guarantees of Origin

The seminars on EEG 2017 and future of the electricity market design complement this seminar by detailed knowledge about the role of renewable energies in the electricity market.

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Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Consideration of oil production and consumption figures worldwide
• Price effects of current geopolitical trouble spots
• Consideration of natural gas production and consumption figures worldwide
• Developments in the LNG markets (exporting countries/importing countries)
• Price effects of current geopolitical conflicts on electricity prices
• Hard coal markets and their geopolitical relevance
• Consideration of the current EUA prices and future developments of the emissions market

The workshop can be booked as a one-day workshop or as a 2-hour lecture.

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Format: Workshop
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Preparation and preliminary analysis
• Workshop: Analysis of current market enviroment
• Check-up of your electricity and gas procurement strategiy

In combination with the seminar procurement strategies with chart analysis, the Workshop can be supplemented by in-depth knowledge.

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Format: Workshop
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Workshop: innovative business models – prospects of success and horizon of implementation
• Workshop: new sales concepts – customer retention and new distribution channels
• Additionally (optional): written composition of the recommendations

In combination with the check-up procurement strategy Workshop and related seminars, this Workshop can be supplemented by in-depth knowledge.


Download info sheet business models in the energy industry

Format: Workshop
Duration: 1 day
Topics:

• Introduction to the electricity market
• Electricity market revenues from renewable energies
• Evaluating risks and opportunities correctly
• Long-term price scenarios with fundamental models
• EU Energy Outlook 2019 – Electricity price scenario until 2050 for Europe (on average)
• Live modeling of an electricity price scenarios

In combination with this Workshop Energy BrainReports can be brought at a reduced price.

Download info sheet electricity market knowledge for banks and investors