Executive courses
Our two-day executive courses provide deep insights into energy economics and combine market expertise with immediately applicable practical knowledge for analysts and decision-makers. Given the group they attract, they are as much about building your network as about expanding your knowledge. No course packs more power markets into two days.
- Format
- Two days, in person in Berlin
- Materials
- High-quality course materials, printed binders
- Instructor
- Lion Hirth, supported by the Neon team
- Price
- EUR 2,000 + VAT
- Discounts
- 25% for the public sector and non-profits, groups on request
Course participants
Our courses bring together outstanding participants from the companies and institutions that shape the power sector, policy, and regulation - up to head-of-division level. Build and deepen your professional network - and benefit from the specific expertise of your peers.
“I cannot remember when I learned so much in just three days.”
Ulla Blatt Bendtsen · Senior Advisor of Climate & Energy Economy · Danish Energy Agency
“I’ve taken a number of courses, but this has been the most useful by far. One particular aspect that I really loved was how the course was structured and how everything connected in the end.”
Alejandro Tovar-Garza · Hartree Consulting
Lion Hirth
Responsible for our course program
Inquiries and registration
Shirin Weigelt
courses@neon.energy
+49 155 68 558 302
Batteries in Power Systems
A deep dive into the current and future role of batteries in power systems: from battery technology and costs to market commercialization, from grid impact to market design and regulation. Designed for professionals who develop, finance, operate, optimize, or regulate battery energy storage systems.
Course content
- Energy storage technologies
- The battery revolution
- Cost of BESS: evolution and drivers
- Value stacking and revenue pools
- Intraday trading with batteries
- Balancing reserves and imbalance pricing
- Grid impact of batteries
- Connection queues and FCAs
- Grid tariffs for batteries
- Behind-the-meter batteries
- Co-location with renewables
Past participants include
Electricity Markets
An in-depth overview of how electricity markets function in practice, combining economic theory, regulation, and industry experience: from price formation and day-ahead auctions to balancing and capacity markets. Designed for professionals who trade, regulate, analyze, or design electricity markets across the power sector.
Course content
- Marginal pricing and the “Merit Order”
- Price spikes and scarcity pricing
- The day-ahead auction
- Intraday and continuous trading
- Balancing reserves and responsibility
- Imbalance settlement
- Hedging and forward markets
- Renewables support schemes
- Contracts for difference (CfDs)
- Capacity mechanisms
- Retail electricity
Past participants include
The Economics of Power Grids
A comprehensive introduction to the technology, economics, operation, and regulation of electricity grids: from locational pricing and redispatch to network charges and dynamic grid fees. Designed for anyone who plans, operates, regulates, or uses electricity grids, from network operators to flexibility providers.
Course content
- Lines, cables, and transformers
- Congestion management and redispatch
- Nodal pricing
- Zonal pricing and market coupling
- The bidding zone split debate
- Markets for local flexibility
- The costs of power grids
- Regulating network operators
- Grid tariffs and how to reform them
- Dynamic grid fees
- Grid impact of batteries and FCAs
Past participants include
Grundlagen der Energiewirtschaft
Eine kompakte Einführung in Energie- und Netzwirtschaft sowie den politisch-regulatorischen Rahmen. Der Kurs vermittelt ein grundlegendes Verständnis von Stromsystem, Marktmechanismen und Regulierung. Für Berufs- und Quereinsteiger bei Energieversorgern und Netzbetreibern sowie in Projektentwicklung und Energiepolitik.
Course content
- Technik-Crashkurs: Kraftwerke, Wind, PV
- Stromgestehungskosten (LCOE)
- Merit Order und Preisbildung
- Marktwert von Wind und Solar
- Day-Ahead und Intraday-Handel
- Risikomanagement und Hedging
- EE-Förderung: Marktprämie bis CfD
- Stromnetze und Netzausbau
- Netzentgelte
- Preiszonen und Zonenteilung
- Die Batterie-Revolution
Past participants include
The Economics of Renewables
A deep dive into the economics of wind and solar energy, from support schemes to merchant exposure: capture prices, PPAs, CfDs, and other remuneration models, with an emphasis on risk allocation, investment decisions, and market integration. Designed for the full renewables value chain, from manufacturing to policy.
Course content
- Why solar and wind got so cheap
- The economic value of renewables
- Capture prices and market value
- Financing and investor risk
- Hedging and PPAs
- Support schemes: feed-in tariffs to CfDs
- Negative prices and what to do
- Commercialization and optimization
- Batteries and co-location
- Flexible connection agreements
- Prosumers and self-consumption
Past participants include
