Training

Our electricity market courses are widely recognised as the most comprehensive in their subject areas, facilitated face-to-face, using market simulations, informative exercises and video. Numbers are limited to eight participants per day.

We also tailor in-house training designed to meet your organisationâ€™s specific needs for up-skilling in any area relevant to the market and pricing aspects of the electricity sector including wholesale, retail, hedge, frequency keeping and reserves markets, distribution and transmission pricing, electricity and gas procurement.

Our public courses will be run three times in 2019 in Dunedin at our offices in historic Consultancy House, New Zealand's first reinforced concrete 'skyscraper'. There are three direct flights each business day Wellington-Dunedin and Auckland-Dunedin and several hotels within easy walking distance from our offices.

The Energy Procurement for Businesscourse is run in conjunction with EMANZ and is intended for larger consumers of electricity, to develop skills and knowledge relevant to purchasing electricity and gas. Read more >>

Upcoming Training Courses

Course	Course Date	Location	Early Payment Date
Introduction to the Electricity Market	15th Oct 2019	Dunedin	11 Oct 2019	Quantity *
Hedging Electricity	16th Oct 2019	Dunedin	11 Oct 2019	Quantity *
Nodal Pricing of Electricity	17th Oct 2019	Dunedin	11 Oct 2019	Quantity *

Intro to the Electricity Market

Provides an understanding of essential elements of the NZ Electricity Supply system and the wholesale electricity market, in particular, with a brief introduction to the retail and hedge markets. Includes our fun and informative spot trading game

Hedging Electricity

A practical introduction to the hedge markets, and to techniques and methods for hedging price risk in electricity markets. An emphasis on developing skills in working with and applying common forms of hedge contract, assisted by participation in our hedging game.

Nodal Pricing

This course will help you build a working knowledge of nodal dispatch and pricing as it applies to the NZ electricity spot market, including simple formulae to apply. It will also build on participantâ€™s ability to recognise the cause of certain nodal pricing effects.

Energy Procurement for Business

This course, or parts of it, is run on request and is an overview of how the electricity market works and who the key players are. Provides an understanding of local retailer and network charging structures. Outlines key commercial risks and opportunities to consider when procuring electricity and gas.(*Multiple Course Discount does not apply)