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:

  1. Introduction to electricity markets
  2. Challenges in electricity markets
  3. What are capacity mechanisms?
  4. Types of capacity mechanisms
  5. Design & implementation of capacity mechanisms
  6. Global versus European context
  7. Global perspective
  8. Criticisms & challenges
  9. Future of capacity mechanisms
  10. Practical application

This course also includes examination and certification.

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The most positive element of the course were the short informative lectures.

Olga Lysytsyna
Senior Consultant at E-Star

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Erika Rabadia
Manager Trading Surveillance | Shell

Entrima’s Intervision Groups provide us a good opportunity to dive into a range of topics, which are highly relevant to us. The sessions both provide good insights from Entrima and an active dialogue between the participants. This combination to the building of our internal knowledge about the ever-evolving areas of trading within the energy markets.

Henrik Kaspersen
Head of Compliance at MFT Energy