Training and assessment

Practise, compete, get scored

ElecSim is used both as a simulator and as a teaching platform. Individuals practise at their own pace; classes and cohorts compete in the same market; instructors assess the result with a graded exam.

For individuals

Solo simulation

A private market with simulated counterparties. Nothing you do has a consequence beyond the scenario, which is exactly what makes it useful for practising a strategy before you defend it.

  • Trade against simulated counterparties
  • Experiment with bidding strategy at no risk
  • Replay a day and compare decisions side by side
  • Included in the Personal plan
For teams and classes

Multi-player simulation

Real people, one market, synchronised rounds. Because every order lands in the same order book, participants have to anticipate each other rather than optimise against a fixed price curve.

  • Teams trade the same market in synchronised rounds
  • Instructor can inject an event mid-session
  • Leaderboard and per-round results
  • Included in the Team plan
For classrooms and corporate academies

Training

Course tracks built from real market scenarios, delivered instructor-led or studied individually. Materials and interface are bilingual.

  • Course tracks built from saved scenarios
  • Instructor-led or self-paced delivery
  • Progress tracking across a cohort
  • Bilingual materials, English and Chinese
For assessment

Exam and scoring

Assess participants under timed conditions and get the result automatically. Scores are broken down by question and by trading decision, so a wrong answer can be traced back to the reasoning that produced it.

  • Question bank: multiple choice, calculation and scenario items
  • Trading-decision tasks graded from actual simulated results
  • Timed sessions with automatic grading
  • Exportable score report for each participant

Course tracks

A curriculum that follows the trading chain

Each track is a sequence of scenarios rather than a set of slides. Participants trade, then review what their decisions actually cost.

  1. 01

    Market fundamentals

    Market structure, participants, pricing principles and how centralized clearing works in practice.

  2. 02

    Medium- and long-term strategy

    Contract portfolios, bilateral negotiation, bidding curves and the risk limits that constrain them.

  3. 03

    Spot market bidding

    Day-ahead and real-time bidding, deviation management, and what it costs to be wrong.

  4. 04

    Retail and deviation management

    Selling to end users, forecasting load and managing imbalance exposure.

  5. 05

    Renewables and storage

    Forecast error, curtailment, arbitrage and stacking revenue across energy and ancillary services.

  6. 06

    Certification exam

    A timed, graded assessment covering the whole trading chain from contracting to settlement.

What participants leave with

Evidence, not just experience

  • A graded score

    A numeric result per participant, broken down by question and by trading round.

  • Profit and loss attribution

    Where the money was made or lost: contract position, day-ahead strategy or real-time deviation.

  • A decision replay

    Every order and every round is stored, so a session can be reviewed decision by decision afterwards.

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Run a training session with your own scenarios

Send us a market, a participant mix and the learning objective. We will build the scenario and show you the scoring output before you commit to a licence.