Three Days: Structured Energy/Power Transactions, Real Options, Retail Electricity Deals and How to Trade Around Energy Assets

A Three-Day Classroom Seminar (CPE Approved)

June 5-7, 2024- Houston, TX, United States

This seminar is designed for regulated and deregulated energy managers, structuring professionals, and anyone else who wants to gain a better understanding of the concepts, methods, and tools energy managers use to structure and price profitable energy/power agreements; how to monetize energy & electric power assets; structure retail power transactions; and increase profits. This program covers a wide range of energy and power transactions and assets illustrating common principles used across the energy industry. Many powerful energy/power structuring and asset trading techniques are explored, with examples of how these techniques can be applied to many real-world energy transactions and assets. This course also addresses retail electricity pricing structures, RFP proposals, full requirements contract structures, the issues faced by providers of last resort, switching/migration risk, power purchase agreements and a number of other topics. This course is unique in that it addresses both the deterministic intrinsic value and the hidden "insurance extrinsic value" associated with complex agreement structures, energy assets and other opportunities.

A laptop is required with any version of EXCEL.

What You Will Learn

Financial engineering and stochastic methods and the statistics of structuring
The economics of electric power generation and how to make money trading between next-day vs. real-time electricity prices.
How to trade around, hedge, and monetize natural gas, petroleum and electric power storage, processing, and transmission assets.
Surprisingly effective natural gas structured transactions that lock in profits and value.
How and why many energy/power market participants "leave money on the table" by undervaluing energy options.
How to calculate risk in structured energy products.
How to increase asset value and build the business case for electric batteries, renewables and other distributed energy resources.
The Intrinsic and Extrinsic "Option Value" of energy & electric power assets
How to trade around storage, transportation, btu and electric generation assets.
How to structure cross-commodity structured transactions.
Real Options, Insurance Value and Trading Around a Hedged Asset.
The structure of forward tolling, and reverse tolling arrangements -- and what to watch out for
The statistics of energy transactions, and how to value opportunities and manage risk.
How structured financial transactions can mimic physical energy and electric power assets.
How to structure retail energy supply obligations and community choice aggregation deals.
And much more!

Who Should Attend

Among those who will benefit from this seminar include energy and electric power executives; attorneys; government regulators; traders & trading support staff; marketing, sales, purchasing & risk management personnel; accountants & auditors; plant operators; engineers; and corporate planners. Types of companies that typically attend this program include energy producers and marketers; utilities; banks & financial houses; industrial companies; accounting, consulting & law firms; municipal utilities; government regulators and electric generators.

Prerequisites and Advance Preparation
This fundamental level group live seminar has no prerequisites. No advance preparation is required before the seminar.A laptop is required with any version of EXCEL.

Program Level & Delivery Method
Basic level. This fundamental course begins with basic material and then proceeds to the intermediate level. Delivery method is "Group-Live."

Your Instructor

Kenneth Skinner, Ph. D. -- Vice President Integral Analytics Inc.
Dr. Skinner is a Vice President for Integral Analytics Inc. (IA), an energy conservation focused analytical planning software and consulting firm. IA is fully owned by Willdan, an industry-leading energy solutions provider and sustainability consultant. Dr. Skinner supports core energy risk management and sustainability services including electric grid optimization, integrated resource planning, design and implementation of integrated demand side projects and distributed energy resources. He is part of a team specializing in energy engineering, renewable generation, electric vehicle fleets and infrastructure, program management, microgrids, financing, data analysis, software development, and other fields. Dr. Skinner has over 20 years of energy industry experience developing energy conservation and commodity supply strategies involving portfolio risk management, hedging strategies, and least-cost supply opportunities. Having worked as an energy consultant, Dr. Skinner has significant experience in economic analysis and modeling of distributed energy projects, forward energy prices, financial derivatives, and valuation of energy assets using econometric analysis, statistical methods, optimization principles, real option valuation techniques. Dr. Skinner is widely published having served as the technology columnist for Wiley Natural Gas and Electricity Journal. He is a noted speaker on energy related topics for organizations such as AESP, IAEE, ACEEE, PLMA, IEPEC, INFORMS, Infocast, EUCI, SNL Energy and PGS Energy Training.

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The seminar will start promptly at 8:00 AM and will finish at 4:00 PM on the first and second day. On the third day, the seminar will resume at 8:00 AM and will finish at 12:00 PM. The program includes continental breakfast, lunch on the first and second day, and breakfast on the third day. Attendees also receive a professionally produced seminar manual that can serve as a valuable office reference. Dress is casual for all seminars.