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How a Battery Gets Paid.

Grid-scale BESS from first principles to the revenue stack. Start with the problem the grid is trying to solve and finish knowing exactly how a battery gets paid — which markets, which contracts, which losses, and which numbers you could defend in front of an investment committee. 9 sections · 44 lessons · ~2h 40m.

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Planned curriculum

From first principles to the revenue stack.

9 sections and 44 lessons — the flexibility gap, the honest gross-to-net loss bridge, and every revenue stream one grid-scale battery can stack.

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9Sections
44Lessons
01 Welcome — What This Course Will Do to You The promise, who the course is for, how it works, and where the material comes from. ~6 min
  • Cold Open: What This Course Will Do to You (doubles as the trailer)
  • The Promise — and Who This Course Is For
  • What You'll Be Able to Do by the End
  • How the Course Works
  • About Your Instructor — Training Built from Delivered Projects
02 Why Storage Exists — The Flexibility Gap Why renewables won on cost, the duck curve, and the size of the market. ~16 min
  • The Grid Was Built to Follow Demand — Renewables Flipped That
  • Inertia and the Two Problems: Energy-Shifting and Stability
  • They Didn't Win on Virtue — They Won on Cost (Learning Curves)
  • The Duck Curve — The Whole Problem in One Picture
  • Not a Fad — The Architecture of a Renewable Grid (Market Size)
03 What You Are Actually Buying — BESS Technology & Performance Site anatomy, the four numbers, LFP vs NMC, and what an OEM really sells. ~22 min
  • Site Anatomy — Follow the Power Path to the POI
  • The Four Numbers — Power, Capacity, Duration, C-rate
  • Duration Decides the Job
  • Chemistry — Why LFP Overtook NMC
  • The Wider Field — Li-ion, Flow, and Long Duration
  • Pause & Think: What Is a BESS OEM Actually Selling? (Assurance)
04 The Hidden Costs — From Nameplate to Money Meter The five optimistic assumptions and the honest gross-to-net bridge from nameplate to the revenue meter. ~31 min
  • The Five Small Optimistic Assumptions
  • Two Efficiencies — One-Way vs Round-Trip (Don't Mix Them Up)
  • From Nameplate to Usable DC Energy
  • From DC Terminals to the Money Meter — The Loss That Never Sleeps
  • Batteries Fade — Plan for the Whole Curve (Degradation)
  • RTE Is the Whole Chain, There and Back
  • Investors Buy Certainty — The Paperwork That Delivers It
  • A Battery Earns Only When It's Available
  • The Expenses You Must Budget
  • Exercise: How a 5 MWh Container Actually Performs
  • Worked Solution: What RTE Delivers in Real MWh
05 How a Battery Gets Paid — Revenue Building Blocks & Offtake One revenue equation, three kinds of market, and the contracted-to-merchant risk dial. ~18 min
  • One Equation Underneath Every Revenue Stream
  • Three Kinds of Market — Energy, Capacity, Ancillary
  • The Risk Dial — Contracted, Merchant, and Everything Between
06 One Asset, Many Jobs — The Revenue Stack Revenue stacking, five years of real GB data, and the boom-saturation-migration cycle. ~12 min
  • A Swiss Army Knife With Three Jobs
  • Five Years of GB Reality — Layering Without Double-Committing
  • The Pattern — Boom, Saturation, Migration
07 The Merchant Engine — Spreads, Venues & the Optimiser Arbitrage and negative pricing, the three trading venues, and the optimiser at work. ~16 min
  • The Merchant Core Is Arbitrage — and Negative Pricing
  • Three Venues — Day-Ahead, Intraday, Balancing Mechanism
  • The Optimiser — and Two Worked Days
08 The Bankable Floor — Capacity Market + The Capstone The Capacity Market, de-rating by duration, EU examples, and the live 50 MW / 200 MWh stacking model. ~31 min
  • The Mechanism — Paid to Be Available When the System Is Stressed
  • A Cautionary Arc — CM Revenue Is Real, but Cyclical
  • De-rating — The CM Pays More for Longer Duration
  • A Current EU Example — BESS Competes Head-to-Head With Gas
  • The Capstone: A Live 50 MW / 200 MWh Revenue-Stacking Model
  • Size the Stack — Your Capstone Exercise & Wrap-Up
09 Bonus — The Original Cash Cow: Ancillary Services The dynamic frequency suite and the frontier — the thesis proven in miniature. ~6 min
  • The Jobs Batteries Do Best
  • FFR to the Dynamic Suite — and the Frontier
Coming soon

Not out yet — but the foundation is.

This revenue course is in production. The complete Grid-Scale BESS course is available now and covers the full system end to end — including how it makes money.

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