Industry
Electricity Marketplace Overview
Length: About 45 minutes
Subscription: 15 days
Cost: $69.00
Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on the basics of the electricity marketplace; including who market participants are, how they interact to provide and deliver electric services, how these services are procured and priced, and how business risks are managed. Also included are a description of competitive and traditional market participants and a look at why electric prices are volatile. This module is also included in the full-length course, Electric Industry Overview.
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- The key differences between regulated and competitive markets
- The various market participants and their roles
- How different market participants make profits
- Services that are offered in competitive wholesale and retail markets
- How prices for services are determined
- The supply/demand situation in various regions of the U.S. The risks inherent in energy markets and how they can be managed
- Traditional market participants and their roles (IOUs, munis and PUDs, co-ops, federal power agencies, ESCOs, and electric marketers)
- Competitive market participants and their roles (merchant generators, ISOs and RTOs, wholesale marketers and retail marketers, financial services companies, transmission companies, UDCs, load serving entities, and ESCOs)
- How participants make money (regulated vs. competitive)
- Wholesale transactions and services (energy, capacity, transmission rights, financial risk management)
- Retail transactions and services (energy, energy efficiency, DSM, power reliability, power quality, energy information)
- How prices are set in regulated markets
- How prices are set in competitive markets
- Supply and demand and why traditional economic rules don't always apply to the electric business
- Why electric prices can be so volatile
- Electric market risks and how they can be mitigated
You may view this course as many times as you wish during the license period (45 days for a full-length course and 15 days for a short course). However, you may not share access to the course with anyone else. Enerdynamics will not be liable to you, or to anyone who may claim any right due to a relationship with you, for any acts or omissions in the performance of services under the terms of this license unless such acts or omissions are due to willful misconduct. With your purchase and/or use of this course you are accepting the terms of this license agreement.
This Enerdynamics online training product has been uniquely designed to offer the best value in the business. With your purchase, you will receive:
- A 45-day single user subscription (15 days for short courses) to the course: view the course material as many times and in any order you like during the subscription period.
- E-mail access to Enerdynamics: feel free to ask any questions relevant to the course material.
- Professional audio and animated content developed by experienced education professionals: this is not a page turner!
- Online exercises and interactions: designed to cement your understanding.
- Reference materials: a list of acronyms and a glossary that you can view online with your course.
- Expert instruction: this course was developed by professionals with decades of energy experience in the industry.
- Full-color presentations: our seminars are carefully designed for maximum impact and interest.
- Learn anytime and anywhere: wherever you have Internet access.
- Your satisfaction is guaranteed: so you have nothing to lose!
Contact us at 866-765-5432 or 'info' for more information.
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