Learning Platform - "Markets & Trading"
Course: Power Markets – Capacity Mechanisms
About the online training programme
Energy-only markets often struggle to deliver sufficient investment signals for new capacity or to retain existing plants, especially in systems undergoing rapid decarbonisation or facing demand growth. Capacity mechanisms have emerged as a policy and market response to this challenge.
Course Contents
This course covers the following video lessons:
- Introduction to electricity markets
- Challenges in electricity markets
- What are capacity mechanisms?
- Types of capacity mechanisms
- Design & implementation of capacity mechanisms
- Global versus European context
- Global perspective
- Criticisms & challenges
- Future of capacity mechanisms
- Practical application
This course also includes examination and certification.








