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AEES Executive Certificate in Energy and electricity markets

Read a price, a purchase contract and a market risk. This AEES certification attests energy and electricity markets.

  • AssessmentProfessional assessment
  • Attempts2
  • PreparationIncluded
  • France
  • Canada
Description

Energy and electricity markets

A vague familiarity with “Energy and electricity markets” is no longer enough. This belongs with Energy and climate. You follow the transition, energy markets, renewables and shared resources. People are hired to decide, not just to name the topic. This AEES certification is for professionals, managers and leaders who want to read an energy price, judge a purchase contract and hold a market risk. No diploma is required. What is required is a working command of written French, and the will to show the subject on a real file, in a company, a public body or a partner organisation.

You are not joining a long degree. You take “Energy and electricity markets” seriously enough to use it, and seriously enough for someone else to read it on a file. Everything happens online, around a job you already have. You prepare if you need to, then you sit a professional assessment. The AEES Executive Certificate, if it is issued, is proof in your name, and it can be checked. It holds in a CV, a move or a cooperation. It is a short specialisation, issued by a higher-education institution. You see at once what you are buying: a targeted title, not a course catalogue.

Afterwards you can carry “Energy and electricity markets” into a team, a file or a new responsibility, and explain your choices to a manager, a funder or a partner institution. Others will see that you can read an energy price, judge a purchase contract and hold a market risk, including outside your own organisation. If you succeed, AEES issues an AEES Executive Certificate in your name, with a unique serial number that can be checked in the public register. The award stays in your workspace. It shows a professional judgement you have demonstrated, useful for a CV, a new post or work in common.

Skills

What this certificate attests

The capabilities the assessment attests if you pass.

  • Read an energy price
  • Judge a purchase contract
  • Hold a market risk
  • Anticipate a supply failure
  • See who may no longer deliver tomorrow
  • Write the purchase before the spike has taken everything
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Knowledge & research

Related scientific readings

Scientific readings related to this certificate.

Preparation included

To prepare for the assessment

After purchase, a preparatory course is available: 6 written modules, without an instructor, at your own pace. You are not required to follow it before opening the assessment. Each module sets out the notions, a commented case, the points to keep and a FAQ. It covers Price, Contract, Volume and Cut.

When you are ready, you enter the assessment: a file already open, incomplete facts, conflicting views. You move through successive decisions. This is not a full taught programme with pedagogical supervision.

Structured written course

Notions, objectives and concrete examples, organised progressively.

Applied case

A commented professional situation to anchor the theory.

FAQ and preparation

Frequent doubts, then questions to go further on your own.

  1. Module 1: Price, Reading Energy and Electricity Market Signals Price is the first market signal you meet and the first you can misread. In energy and electricity, it condenses weather, fuel, carbon, grid constraints, plant outages, and policy into one number tied to a product, a location, and a delivery time. If you do not anchor each of these elements before reacting, your actions become noise exposure rather than risk management. This module builds a routine for reading price across spot and forward horizons. You will learn to separate what the price measures from what the headline suggests. You will connect power prices to their formation mechanisms and the cross-commodity drivers that shape the forward curve. You will check a signal by triangulating independent data and then translate the reading into a proportionate procurement action.
  2. AEES Executive Certificate in Energy and Electricity Markets · Module 2: Contract Your purchase contract is the bridge between market prices and your physical operations. In energy and electricity markets, it determines who bears price risk, how volume deviations are treated, and which events can reset the deal. The right term, index, and flexibility convert market uncertainty into a managed position. The wrong choice locks you into avoidable cost, leaves you exposed to imbalance or change in law, or prevents an orderly exit when conditions shift. This module helps you specify the core commercial architecture of a contract you can defend to your CFO and operate without surprises. You do not need to write legal clauses from scratch to apply this module. You do need to know how commercial choices translate into clauses and schedules in common frameworks such as EFET for physical power and ISDA for financial hedges. You also need to recognize which indices are investable, which tenors are liquid enough to price, and how flexibility parameters like tolerance and swing convert into premium and penalties. The aim is to make your contract measurable, auditable, and executable under your metering, scheduling, and credit constraints.
  3. Module 3/6 - Volume: Decide what you cover, and what you leave open Price moves attract attention, but in electricity and energy supply, volume is the lever you actually control day by day. Your meters, processes, and weather drive the megawatt-hours or therms you must deliver or take. What you cover today can save your budget in a cold snap, or trap you with penalties if demand slumps. This module gives you a practical way to decide how much to lock and how much to leave open. Volume is not one number. A portfolio has a baseline, peaks, troughs, and uncertainty bands that shrink as delivery nears. Each layer can be covered with a different tool. Some coverage fits only a slice of hours, some follows the load, some carries flexibility. Choosing the right mix is a volume decision, not a price forecast.
  4. Cut: Anticipate a supply failure Energy markets do not only move in price. They also tighten physically. A power cut, gas curtailment, or network constraint can erase production, breach contracts downstream, and damage equipment. This module helps you read the signals that precede a supply failure and act before it happens. The skill is practical: link what system operators and markets reveal in real time with what your site can actually do in the next 15 minutes, 24 hours, and 7 days. You will learn where to look for credible warnings, how to rate the risk for your locations, how to prepare alternate supply and load actions, and how to write decisions in a way your plant and finance teams can execute.
  5. Module 5/6, Counterparty In energy and electricity markets, your position is only as strong as the party on the other side of the contract. Counterparty risk is not abstract. It shows up as missed nominations on the day, invoices that do not clear, emergency reprocurements at a premium, or costly legal disputes when you must terminate. Electricity is a just-in-time product with limited storage, so performance failures cascade quickly into physical, financial, and regulatory impacts. This module gives you a practical, actionable way to evaluate counterparties before you trade and to monitor them while exposure is live. You will build a view that integrates financial strength, legal enforceability, collateral, operational capability, and regulatory signals. You will also learn how to respond early, when timely adjustments can still protect supply and cost.
  6. Decision: Write the purchase before the spike has taken everything In energy procurement, your analysis only matters if you can turn it into a timely purchase. Markets move, liquidity thins, and counterparties change their stance within minutes. The final act is writing the purchase instruction that locks supply, price, and risk. This module shows you how to do it cleanly and fast, with enough governance and documentation to withstand scrutiny. Spikes do not announce themselves. They build through signals you can see and confirm with public data: system margins, outages, storage, weather, and order book depth. The skill is to decide and execute while a narrow window is still open. Hesitate, and spreads widen or quotes disappear. Rush, and you may buy the wrong product, exceed a risk limit, or miscommunicate to a dealer. You need a protocol that compresses time without losing control.