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Module PDFs

• Module 1 Power System Fundamentals (Chapters 1-22).pdf

• Module 2 Running a Power Trading Desk (Chapters 23-34).pdf

• Module 3 US & EU Power Market Reality (Chapters 35-50).pdf

• Module 4 Strategy Beyond Textbook Trades (Chapters 51-74).pdf

• Module 5 Valuation, Analytics & Model Skepticism (Chapters 75-92).pdf

• Module 6 Analytics, AI & Data Engineering for Desks (Chapters 93-112).pdf

• Module 7 Risk Management for Survivors (Chapters 113-136).pdf

• Module 8 Execution, Scheduling & Operational Risk (Chapters 137-148).pdf

• Module 9 ETRM as a Strategic Control Layer (Chapters 149-166).pdf

• Module 10 Regulation, Behavior & Leadership (Chapters 167-179).pdf

• Module 11 Enterprise ETRM & Technology Architecture (Chapters 180-199).pdf

• Module 12 Building a Durable Power Desk (Chapters 200-217).pdf

• Module 13 Capstone - Designing a Trading Organization (Chapters 218-234).pdf

Module 01 - Power System Fundamentals

• Module 01 - Power System Fundamentals.mp4

• Module 01 - Power System Fundamentals.chapters.txt

• 1. Why the Physical System Drives Price.m4a

• 11. Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC).m4a

• 20. Intermittency & Balancing.m4a

• 14. Transmission Constraints & Congestion.m4a

• 9. Economic Dispatch.m4a

• 18. Load Forecasting.m4a

• 5. Hydro & Storage Hydro.m4a

• 10. Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED).m4a

• 8. Unit Commitment.m4a

• 2. The Generation Stack.m4a

• 15. Nodal vs. Zonal Market Design.m4a

• 17. Grid Reliability Standards.m4a

• 22. Demand Response.m4a

• 19. Renewable Forecasting.m4a

• 7. Merit-Order Dispatch.m4a

• 4. Nuclear & Baseload.m4a

• 12. Transmission Topology.m4a

• 13. AC vs. DC Power Flow.m4a

• 6. Wind & Solar.m4a

• 16. Transmission Expansion Planning.m4a

• 21. Storage Economics.m4a

• 3. Thermal Generation Economics.m4a

Module 02 - Running a Power Trading Desk

• Module 02 - Running a Power Trading Desk.chapters.txt

• Module 02 - Running a Power Trading Desk.mp4

• 27. Physical vs. Financial Mindset.m4a

• 32. Communication Under Pressure.m4a

• 25. The Trading Day, Hour by Hour.m4a

• 34. A Day That Goes Wrong.m4a

• 23. What a Power Desk Actually Does.m4a

• 29. The Limits That Govern a Desk.m4a

• 28. Information Flow on the Desk.m4a

• 33. Tools of the Desk.m4a

• 30. P&L_ What It Is and What It Hides.m4a

• 31. Working With the Control Functions.m4a

• 24. Desk Structure & Roles.m4a

Module 03 - US & EU Power Market Reality

• Module 03 - US & EU Power Market Reality.mp4

• Module 03 - US & EU Power Market Reality.chapters.txt

• 47. Capacity Markets.m4a

• 48. Ancillary Services.m4a

• 39. CAISO & the Western Markets.m4a

• 49. Cross-Border & Interconnectors.m4a

• 42. Day-Ahead vs. Real-Time.m4a

• 45. EPEX & Central Europe.m4a

• 46. Market Coupling.m4a

• 44. Nord Pool in Practice.m4a

• 41. Locational Marginal Pricing.m4a

• 43. The EU Market Map.m4a

• 50. Reading a New Market Fast.m4a

• 36. The US Market Map.m4a

• 38. ERCOT in Practice.m4a

• 37. PJM in Practice.m4a

• 35. Why Power Is Not Like Other Commodities.m4a

Module 04 - Strategy Beyond Textbook Trades

• Module 04 - Strategy Beyond Textbook Trades.chapters.txt

• Module 04 - Strategy Beyond Textbook Trades.mp4

• 65. Renewable PPAs.m4a

• 64. Virtual_Convergence Bidding.m4a

• 55. Locational_Basis Trades.m4a

• 67. Renewable Certificate Markets.m4a

• 53. The Spark Spread in Depth.m4a

• 51. Why Textbook Trades Fail.m4a

• 57. Building a Structured Trade.m4a

• 61. Renewables Shape Risk.m4a

• 62. Load-Following Trades.m4a

• 56. Calendar & Time Spreads.m4a

• 69. Distributed Energy Resources.m4a

• 74. Winning & Losing Strategies.m4a

• 70. Flexibility Markets.m4a

• 59. Tolling & Generation Optionality.m4a

• 52. Spread Trading Fundamentals.m4a

• 68. Virtual Power Plants.m4a

• 71. Cross-Commodity Plays.m4a

• 66. Corporate PPAs.m4a

• 58. Optionality You Don't See.m4a

• 72. Carbon Allowances & Market Interaction.m4a

• 60. Storage & Flexibility Trades.m4a

• 63. FTRs & Congestion Hedging.m4a

• 54. Dark & Quark Spreads.m4a

• 73. Trading the Weather.m4a

Module 05 - Valuation, Analytics & Model Skepticism

• Module 05 - Valuation, Analytics & Model Skepticism.chapters.txt

• Module 05 - Valuation, Analytics & Model Skepticism.mp4

• 91. Model Risk & The Skeptic's Checklist.m4a

• 78. Volatility in Power.m4a

• 79. Pricing Power Options.m4a

• 75. What a Valuation Is For.m4a

• 86. Bayesian Forecasting.m4a

• 88. Greeks for Power Desks.m4a

• 92. A Model That Blew Up.m4a

• 82. Scenario Generation.m4a

• 85. Probabilistic Forecasting.m4a

• 90. Backtesting & Its Traps.m4a

• 81. Monte Carlo for Power.m4a

• 83. Copulas & Dependence Modeling.m4a

• 89. Correlation_ The Silent Killer.m4a

• 80. Spread Option Valuation.m4a

• 76. Forward Curves.m4a

• 77. Curve Shaping.m4a

• 87. Asset Valuation.m4a

• 84. Extreme Value Theory.m4a

Module 06 - Analytics, AI & Data Engineering for Desks

• 111. Model Deployment, Monitoring & Observability.m4a

• Module 06 - Analytics, AI & Data Engineering for Desks.chapters.txt

• Module 06 - Analytics, AI & Data Engineering for Desks.mp4

• 105. Feature Engineering for Power.m4a

• 112. Market Surveillance & The Analytics Failure Case.m4a

• 108. Dynamic Programming.m4a

• 97. Data Mesh.m4a

• 104. Forecasting With ML.m4a

• 109. Portfolio Optimization.m4a

• 110. Algorithmic & Execution Algorithms.m4a

• 102. Satellite & Alternative Data.m4a

• 98. Market Data Platforms.m4a

• 93. The Modern Data-Driven Desk.m4a

• 95. Stream Processing.m4a

• 107. Stochastic Optimization.m4a

• 94. Data Engineering for Trading.m4a

• 103. Machine Learning in Power.m4a

• 96. Lakehouse Architecture.m4a

• 101. Weather Analytics.m4a

• 100. Real-Time Pricing Engines.m4a

• 106. Reinforcement Learning for Bidding.m4a

• 99. Reference & Time-Series Data.m4a

Module 07 - Risk Management for Survivors

• Module 07 - Risk Management for Survivors.chapters.txt

• Module 07 - Risk Management for Survivors.mp4

• 113. Risk as Survival, Not Compliance.m4a

• 121. Volumetric Risk.m4a

• 116. Beyond VaR.m4a

• 136. The Blow-Up Anatomy.m4a

• 119. Liquidity Stress Scenarios.m4a

• 120. Congestion Risk.m4a

• 129. Intraday Risk Management.m4a

• 124. Fuel Supply Risk.m4a

• 130. Stress Testing & Scenario Analysis.m4a

• 128. Operational Risk.m4a

• 134. Governance Committees & Internal Audit.m4a

• 114. Market Risk.m4a

• 132. Three Lines of Defense.m4a

• 126. Transmission Outage Risk.m4a

• 117. Credit Risk.m4a

• 131. Enterprise Risk Management Integration.m4a

• 122. Renewable Portfolio Risk.m4a

• 135. Limits, Margin & Collateral.m4a

• 125. Plant Outage Risk.m4a

• 123. Weather Risk.m4a

• 115. Value at Risk.m4a

• 127. Regulatory Risk.m4a

• 133. Model Governance, Validation & Inventory.m4a

• 118. Liquidity Risk.m4a

Module 08 - Execution, Scheduling & Operational Risk

• Module 08 - Execution, Scheduling & Operational Risk.chapters.txt

• Module 08 - Execution, Scheduling & Operational Risk.mp4

• 142. Outages & Curtailments.m4a

• 145. Operational Deadlines.m4a

• 139. Nominations.m4a

• 140. Real-Time Operations.m4a

• 138. Scheduling Basics.m4a

• 144. Confirmations & Matching.m4a

• 146. Settlement Mechanics.m4a

• 143. Tagging & Transmission.m4a

• 137. From Trade to Delivery.m4a

• 148. An Operational Near-Miss.m4a

• 147. Operational Failure Modes.m4a

• 141. Imbalance & Deviation.m4a

Module 09 - ETRM as a Strategic Control Layer

• Module 09 - ETRM as a Strategic Control Layer.chapters.txt

• Module 09 - ETRM as a Strategic Control Layer.mp4

• 157. Market Data Validation.m4a

• 161. P&L Explain.m4a

• 163. Settlement & Invoicing.m4a

• 159. Credit Exposure Calculations.m4a

• 162. Scheduling & Operations in ETRM.m4a

• 158. Valuation in the ETRM.m4a

• 165. APIs & Integration Architecture.m4a

• 164. Audit, Lineage & Controls.m4a

• 155. Curve Management.m4a

• 160. Risk in the ETRM.m4a

• 153. Validation & Workflow.m4a

• 150. The ETRM Data Model.m4a

• 151. Trade Capture.m4a

• 156. Reference Data Governance.m4a

• 152. Trade Lifecycle State Model.m4a

• 149. What an ETRM Is For.m4a

• 166. Cloud-Native ETRM Platforms.m4a

• 154. The Position Engine.m4a

Module 10 - Regulation, Behavior & Leadership

• Module 10 - Regulation, Behavior & Leadership.chapters.txt

• Module 10 - Regulation, Behavior & Leadership.mp4

• 176. Hiring & Developing Traders.m4a

• 173. Decision-Making Under Uncertainty.m4a

• 175. Leading a Desk.m4a

• 170. Reporting Obligations.m4a

• 178. Crisis Leadership.m4a

• 168. Market Manipulation.m4a

• 179. A Conduct Failure Case.m4a

• 172. Behavioral Biases on the Desk.m4a

• 169. Surveillance & Compliance.m4a

• 174. Pressure, Stress & Performance.m4a

• 171. Conduct & Ethics.m4a

• 177. Incentives & Compensation.m4a

• 167. The Regulatory Landscape.m4a

Module 11 - Enterprise ETRM & Technology Architecture

• Module 11 - Enterprise ETRM & Technology Architecture.mp4

• Module 11 - Enterprise ETRM & Technology Architecture.chapters.txt

• 183. Integration Patterns.m4a

• 180. The Enterprise Trading Stack.m4a

• 181. Build vs. Buy.m4a

• 196. Security & Resilience.m4a

• 184. Event Sourcing.m4a

• 186. Stream Processing at Enterprise Scale.m4a

• 199. The Technology Roadmap.m4a

• 182. Vendor ETRM Landscape.m4a

• 198. Implementation, Migration & TCO.m4a

• 192. Reporting & BI Layer.m4a

• 195. Observability & Monitoring.m4a

• 188. Real-Time Pricing & Risk Engines.m4a

• 194. Cloud Architecture for Trading.m4a

• 191. Scheduling Platform Architecture.m4a

• 189. Digital Twins.m4a

• 197. Disaster Recovery & Continuity.m4a

• 185. High-Availability Architectures.m4a

• 193. Data Governance for Trading.m4a

• 187. Lakehouse & Data Mesh in the Enterprise.m4a

• 190. Market Data Architecture.m4a

Module 12 - Building a Durable Power Desk

• Module 12 - Building a Durable Power Desk.mp4

• Module 12 - Building a Durable Power Desk.mp4

• Module 12 - Building a Durable Power Desk.chapters.txt

• Module 12 - Building a Durable Power Desk.chapters.txt

• 205. EV Charging Economics.m4a

• 205. EV Charging Economics.m4a

• 212. Building the Team.m4a

• 210. Building the Tech Stack.m4a

• 212. Building the Team.m4a

• 210. Building the Tech Stack.m4a

• 200. What Makes a Desk Durable.m4a

• 200. What Makes a Desk Durable.m4a

• 213. Process & Controls.m4a

• 209. Energy Transition Strategy.m4a

• 203. Battery Optimization.m4a

• 209. Energy Transition Strategy.m4a

• 213. Process & Controls.m4a

• 207. Grid-Forming Inverters.m4a

• 217. Governance & Oversight.m4a

• 207. Grid-Forming Inverters.m4a

• 203. Battery Optimization.m4a

• 216. The Operating Model & Enterprise Playbook.m4a

• 217. Governance & Oversight.m4a

• 215. Adapting to Market Change.m4a

• 202. Capacity Expansion Planning.m4a

• 215. Adapting to Market Change.m4a

• 208. Hydrogen & Power-to-X.m4a

• 208. Hydrogen & Power-to-X.m4a

• 216. The Operating Model & Enterprise Playbook.m4a

• 202. Capacity Expansion Planning.m4a

• 206. Microgrids.m4a

• 214. Capital, Funding & Treasury.m4a

• 206. Microgrids.m4a

• 211. Building the Risk Framework.m4a

• 214. Capital, Funding & Treasury.m4a

• 201. Desk Strategy & Mandate.m4a

• 211. Building the Risk Framework.m4a

• 204. Battery Degradation Modeling.m4a

• 201. Desk Strategy & Mandate.m4a

• 204. Battery Degradation Modeling.m4a

Module 13 - Capstone — Designing a Trading Organization

• Module 13 - Capstone — Designing a Trading Organization.mp4

• Module 13 - Capstone — Designing a Trading Organization.chapters.txt

• 225. Market Data Platform.m4a

• 227. Reporting & Analytics.m4a

• 233. Presenting the Design.m4a

• 229. Cloud & Technology Architecture.m4a

• 219. Defining the Mandate.m4a

• 220. Front Office Design.m4a

• 231. The Technology Roadmap.m4a

• 221. Middle Office Design.m4a

• 224. ETRM Architecture.m4a

• 226. Scheduling Platform.m4a

• 230. The Operating Model.m4a

• 218. The Capstone Brief.m4a

• 222. Back Office Design.m4a

• 232. Financials & Business Case.m4a

• 228. Data Governance.m4a

• 223. The Risk Framework.m4a

• 234. Capstone Synthesis.m4a