Energy marketsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

A student will be able tocarry out profitability calculations related to energy production, energy use, energy tariffs and appraisal of investmentexplain Finnish energy policy (content, goals and implementation)knows the past and future trends (scenarios) of energy consumptioncalculate the price of produced energy

Content

What are the key points of Finnish energy policy? How to analyze energy consumption (past and future scenarios)? How energy policy is implemented? What arenergy resources and their adequacy? How to utilize profitability calculations (investments, energy saving)? What are energy production costs of power plants, tariffs? How to learn load duration curves? How to optimize of energy production?

Qualifications

Not required to have any prior know-how or skills.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

a. to use field specific professional vocabulary systematically. b. to utilize key information sources of the field. e. to use the key methods and techniques of the field.