Electricity as a commodity and a description of the electricity market

Basic characteristics of the electricity market, principles of market functioning in relation to physical processes, historical context, the role of market participants.

Legislative standards of electricity trading

Basic legislative standards related to electricity trade at the level of the Czech Republic and the EU.

Planning and management of transmission systems

Physical properties of transmission, types of power plants and their properties, basic principles of transmission system planning, types and characteristics of production sources.

Provision of system and support services

Description of system and support services, analysis of important services such as Frequency Containment Reserves, Frequency Restoration Reserves and Reserve Replacement.

Comprehensive planning of transmission systems

Real-time system management, Smart Grids - SmartMetering, SmartHome, SmartGrids in the Czech Republic.

Electricity trade

Basic principles of the liberalized electricity market, access to networks, market organization, registration and financial settlement of trades, risk management, trading on stock exchanges, measurement, evaluation and settlement of deviations.

Cross - border trade

Transmission capacities as limited resources, calculation of free capacities, auctions of cross-border capacities, participation of stock exchanges in cross-border trading.

International coordination of system management

Planning of international electricity exchanges, Use of netting, Financial settlement.

Solving situations of imminent congestion

International Settlement of Deviations, Compensation for Transit Transfers, Transparency of Cross-Border Trade.

Emergencies and rights and obligations of market participants

Definition of a state of emergency, tools for solutions, control stages, examples of real states of emergency.

Contracts in the electricity market

Contracts on regulated access, between suppliers and customers, the basic form of contracts for final customers.

Regulation and regulated prices

The need for regulation, methods of price regulation

Transmission System Control System (SCADA / EMS)

Significance for transmission system operators, basic division, technologies, communication protocols, work with data.

Transmission system measuring system

Acceptance of measured values, communication protocols, validation, aggregation, substitution, statistics, exports.

Retail Data hub

Evidence of data on end consumers - measured values, change of electricity supplier, etc., data processing, access rights, link to smart grids.

Security system

Security calculations over big data, data exchange within the European network.