The Green Power Mini-MBA

Key Course Learning

• The varied science and technology behind renewable energy and how this dictates the commercial boundaries on its potential, cost structure and market positioning
• Market impacts, opportunities and challenges for Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Biomass and Ocean energy
• The business of renewable energy, including: cash flow planning, business case factors and sensitivities; risk evaluation and financing; political and regulatory impacts
• Internal/external and micro/macro-economic factors in increasing renewables within the energy mix
• Renewable energy strategies at different levels: firms, countries and regions
• BUSINESS PLANNING EXERCISE: putting it all into practice

Training Level and Delivery

Led by Green Power’s in-house Training Director and supplemented by carefully selected, expert guest speakers, the course is delivered through a mix of presentation, discussion, multimedia, illustrative calculation and business planning group work. The course runs in a friendly, informal manner, encouraging discussions and questions to ensure that participants get the most out of their time.

We assume no prior expertise on the topics covered during the course, which seeks to provide clarity to what is a complex and interconnected series of scientific and economic influences. All we ask is that you bring an inquiring mind, a willingness to actively participate, and an openness to share your own ideas and expertise with others!

Audience

You should expect to meet business people and senior managers from a wide range of interested parties and sectors, for example listed below:

• Power Generators, Utilities & Fuel Producers
• Project Developers, Transmission/Distribution Suppliers and Technology Vendors
• Investment Banks, VCs and Insurance Companies
• Policymakers, Analysts and Consultants

In addition to ample opportunities for interaction throughout the training week, a networking dinner is included within the course fee.

The week at-a-glance

The Business Planning Exercise:

This is an information-packed week, with a wide variety of topics and issues introduced to attendees. Lively discussions will trigger a variety of views and highlight different approaches to different markets. Our view is that this is a good thing; that the competitive context of renewable energy is complex and open to such debate.

The best way to utilise this mass of knowledge and bring disparate topics together is to apply them - which is where our business planning exercise comes in.

Specifically designed for this course and unique to Green Power Academy, the exercise runs throughout the week and allows attendees to work in small teams, writing a business plan and strategy to incorporate renewable sources within a competitive, realistic energy market simulation. Bringing a laptop to the course is essential, in order that attendees can utilise data, spread-sheets and other tools that allow them to devise, model and finance their business plans; and present these plans in competition with other teams within the group