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Our in-house seminars and trainings are customised according to the individual needs of your company. Together with you, we create an agenda that corresponds to your learning objectives, previous knowledge and needs. Contents can be compiled from our seminars as well as our further training courses, such as Simulation Games.
Your benefits
- You determine the time and place
- Individualised agenda and topics
- Combination of training courses
- Topics are dealt with confidentially on your premises
- You determine who participants
Click on the titles below to view the agendas of our standard in-house seminars and workshops.
Basics of the Electricity Industry
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.
Basics of the Gas 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.
Basics of the Energy Industry
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.
Energy Industry Know-How for Sales
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.
Trade and Procurement
Electricity Trading
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.
Intraday and Control Reserve Market
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.
Introduction to Futures Market
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.
Gas Trading
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.
Balancing Group Management Electricity
Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:
- Market roles and market rules in the electricity market
- The balancing group contract: status and outlook
- Schedule notification and schedule management
- Control and balancing energy
- Pre-defined processes for balancing group management
This seminar will be complemented by the intraday and control reserve market seminar.
Electricity Price Forecasts
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.
Procurement Strategies with Chart Analysis
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.
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Risk Management in Energy Trading
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.
Renewable energies
The German Renewable Energies Act (EEG) 2017
Level: Expert seminar
Duration: 1 day
Topics:
- Overview of the current EEG 2017
- Tender system and remuneration structure
- Feed-in management and grid expansion areas
- Business models with renewable energy
- Direct marketing
- Discussion of current developments in the market
This seminar can be supplemented by combining it with the seminar on electricity market knowledge for renewable energies.
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PPAs in Germany and Europe: Ü21, Post-EEG and Co
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.
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Electricity Market Knowledge Renewable Energies
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.
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New energy worlds
Electricity market knowledge for e-mobility
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.
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Blockchain in the energy industry
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.
Heat, electricity and transport: the way to the business case
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.
Sales options battery storage systems
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.
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Future of the Electricity Market
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.
Other topics
The turnaround has begun: CO2 prices and coal phase-out
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.
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Introduction CO2 Certificate Trading
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.
Electricity Labelling and Guarantees of Origin
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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Geopolitics in the energy industry
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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Knowledge Practical
Workshops
Check-Up Procurement strategy
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.
Business models in the energy industry
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.
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Electricity Market Knowledge for Banks and Investors
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.
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Testimonials
"Thank you a lot for this superb training! I liked your sovereign style and the many deep insights into the complex energy trading markets in Germany and Europe."
Simon Bittner
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
"Thank you very much for the highly successful in-house event at our company. All participants liked it and are now well-informed."
Stefanie Selms
Stadtwerke Parchim GmbH
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