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  • infoAbout this Program

    The Program on Power Market Economics and Operation: provide insights to the economics, operation & regulatory aspects of power market. The Program would be conducted under the aegis of Office of Outreach Activities, IIT Kanpur.

    Program Duration:

    About 30 hours

    Relevance of the Program:

    Understanding the evolution of power market, and regulatory structure for the same

    Examining the cost drivers for regulation and ancillary services to maintain the grid security

    Understanding the economic operation of power market and power procurement plannin

    Learning from international experience with power market development

    Addressing the present and emerging challenges related to power market

    Understanding electricity derivatives

    Contracts for Differences

    Virtual Power Purchase Agreements for hedging and investment planning

    Key Topics:

    Power Market Regulation

    Operation of Power Exchanges

    Market Monitoring

    Open Access

    Distributed Energy Market

    Power Procurement Planning

    Ancillary Services

    Congestion Management

    Retail Competition

    Load Forecasting

    Security Constrained Economic Dispatch

    Market Based Economic Dispatch

    Economic Operation of Power System

    Resource Adequacy

    Power Market Derivatives

    Contract for Differences

    Virtual Power Purchase Agreement

  • addLearning Outcomes

    Conceptual understanding of power market from economics, regulatory and policy perspective

    Opportunity to learn best practices from global experts

    Developing the ability to understand the emerging needs for better understanding of power markets

  • addAgenda / Schedule

    Schedule for the program would be generally organised between 5:00pm - 06:45pm (Mon, Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri) and 03:30pm - 05:00pm (Sat., Sun.). Pre-recorded session will be released in advance.

    Module 1 (Economics and Operation of Power Market)

    These are the following sessions.

    fiber_manual_record Inaugural Session | 12 Sep, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM |

    fiber_manual_record Introduction to CER's OLET Platform | 12 Sep, 2026 | 10:30 AM -11:00 AM | CER Team

    fiber_manual_record Economic Fundamentals of Power Sector | 13 Sep, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    fiber_manual_record Market Failure and Natural Monopoly | 13 Sep, 2026 | 10:30AM - 11:00 AM | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    fiber_manual_record Evolution of Power Market Development in India EA 2003 & beyond | 14 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    fiber_manual_record Wholesale Power Market in India: A Regulatory Perspective | 16 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Dr. Sushanta Chatterjee, Chief (Regulatory Affairs), CERC

    fiber_manual_record Power System Operation and Deviation Settlement Mechanism | 17 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Mr. S.K Soonee, Former and Founder CEO, POSOCO (Grid-India)

    fiber_manual_record Emerging Landscape of the Indian Power Market: General Network Access and Beyond | 19 Sep, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Ms. Shilpa Agarwal, Joint Chief (Engineering), CERC

    fiber_manual_record Functioning of Power Exchanges: Regulation, Development and Products | 19 Sep, 2026 | 10:30AM - 11:00 AM | Mr. Dhruv Dhiman, VP - Business Development, IEX Ltd

    fiber_manual_record Economics of Power Market: Regulated vs Competitive Procurement | 20 Sep, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    fiber_manual_record Competitive Bidding Principles and Guidelines | 21 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Mr. Shathish Vasudev, Director, La Caisse

    fiber_manual_record Open Access Regulations,Cross-subsidy and Short-term Power Procurement Practices | 22 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Mr. Nishant Singhal, Chief Business Officer - Manikaran Power Ltd.

    fiber_manual_record SCED, MBED and beyond | 23 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    Module 2 (Power Procurement Planning and Strategy)

    fiber_manual_record Resource Adequacy - Case Study for Discoms | 25 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    fiber_manual_record Resource Adequacy - Principles, Practices and Way Forward | 26 Sep, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Mr. Ghanshyam Prasad, Chairperson, CEA

    fiber_manual_record Demand Response: National and International Experiences | 26 Sep, 2026 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (LIVE) | TBD

    fiber_manual_record Regional Power Market in South Asia | 27 Sep, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (LIVE) | CEA

    fiber_manual_record Short-Term Power Procurement Practices | 28 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Mr. Abhishek Ranjan, Chief Executive Officer & SVP, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited

    fiber_manual_record Derivatives and Risk Management in Power Market | 29 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Mr. Ashish Bhagtani, AVP - MCX

    fiber_manual_record Contract for Differences (CFD) and Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) - Design and Implementation | 30 Sep, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | MOP

    fiber_manual_record Evolution and Emerging landscape for Ancillary Services | 01 Oct, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Mr. Rajiv Porwal, Director (System Operation) GRID-INDIA

    fiber_manual_record Application Strategies for Power Market Derivatives for Discoms, MPPs and OA Consumers | 03 Oct, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (LIVE) | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    fiber_manual_record A Market Monitoring Framework for the Indian Power Sector | 05 Oct, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    fiber_manual_record Retail Competition: Indian Perspective and International Experience | 06 Oct, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Mr. Rajat Goel, Director, Deloitte

    fiber_manual_record Brainstorming & Interactive Discussion | 08 Oct, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (LIVE) | Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK

    fiber_manual_record Demo Assessment | 09 Oct, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | CER TEAM

    fiber_manual_record Overall Assessment | 11 Oct, 2026 | | CER TEAM

    1. Subject to the confirmation by the respective resource person.

    2. Recorded Session will be released one day before the "live interactive session".

    3. Live sessions recording are released one day after the session.

    4. However, the program calendar/duration will be flexible to accommodate availability of the speaker and other constraints.

    Note: The agenda is subject to change. Sessions may be added, modified, replaced, or removed.

  • languagePedagogy
    Mode of delivery:

    The program will be delivered in online mode in the form of live and recorded sessions to offer flexibility to the working professionals. The recorded sessions would be hosted at CER’s Online Learning Environment and Tools (OLET) platform. The program will be covered across 2 weeks and include multiple sessions of about 1 hour 30 min each (with total program duration of more than 30 hours).

  • Who should apply?

    Officials from Electricity Regulatory Commissions (including Members), Generation Companies, Licensees (including Transmission, Distribution and Trading), Commodity/ Stock/ Power Exchanges, Financial Institutions, Banks, Consultants/Analysts, Investors, Lawyers, CAs/CS, Faculty, Researchers and Students from Academic Institutions, Consumer Organizations, NGOs and other stakeholders who want to enhance their understanding of this multidisciplinary area.

  • Award of Certificate
    Participants would be awarded one of the following certificates as per the criteria mentioned:

    Certificate Type Minimum Criteria
    Pre-recorded sessions Live/ Live interective sessions
    or their recorded version     		Assessment and Participation
    Certificate of Achievement 70% 50% Above the required criteria
    Certificate of Participation 50% 30% Below the required criteria

    Note:

    • 1. Per session participation/ attendance will be counted only if minimum view duration/ attendance exceeds 80% of duration of the session.
      2. No certificate will be awarded, if the above criteria for minimum attendance is not met or the  performance in the assessment and participation is below the minimum certification criteria for the program
      3. If any candidate fails to appear in the Assessment, no certificate will be awarded

    4. Certification criteria may be revised or updated later.

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  • Registration Fee
    A. Details of Registration Fee

    S. No. Participation Category Fee (INR) Total (INR)
    1 Industry*^ 36000 + 18% GST 42480
    2 Faculty
      a. IITK
      b. Non-IITK**    		  
    17000
    17000 + 18% GST    		  
    17000
    20060
    3 Students
      a. IITK
      b. Non-IITK ***    		  
    6000
    6000 + 18% GST    		  
    6000
    7080
    4 SERCs having MoU with CER-IITK 28800 + 18% GST 33984

    * Including Commissioners and Officers from Electricity Regulatory Commissions; Stakeholders from Licensees (Transmission, Distribution and Trading), Generating Company Load Dispatch Centers, RE Development Agencies, Financial Institutions, Consultants, Investors, Industrial consumer, IPPs.

    # Including NGOs, Consumer Organisation and research institutions (non-corporate).

    ## Applicable for full-time students, who must submit a bonafide certificate within five working days of registration.

    Note:- For each registration only one discount will be applicable.

    ^ Three or more participants from the same organisation will get 20% discount on registration fee. For group registration for 10 or more participants, please contact us. Female candidates would receive a further discount of 20%. Cannot be clubbed with any other discount.

    Registration will commence on: 6th Aug 2026

    End date of registration: 10th Sept 2026

    Program starts on: 12th Sept 2026

    Program ends on: 11th Oct 2026

    C. Guidelines for registration process

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  • Contact us

    Centre for Energy Regulation (CER)

    Department of Management Sciences

    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-208016

    Phone: +91 512 259 6181

    Email: cer_cbp@iitk.ac.in

    For any query on
    CER's Regulatory Certification Program (RCP) on
    "Power Market Economics and Operation"

    Write here
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Tentative Schedule
  • Module 1 (Economics and Operation of Power Market) (Week-1) arrow_downward
    Live Interactive Session
    Sno. Session Title Date Time Resource Person
    Inaugural Session 12 Sep, 2026 (Saturday) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    1 Introduction to CER's OLET Platform 12 Sep, 2026 (Saturday) 10:30 AM -11:00 AM CER Team
    2 Economic Fundamentals of Power Sector 13 Sep, 2026 (Sunday) 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
    3 Market Failure and Natural Monopoly 13 Sep, 2026 (Sunday) 10:30AM - 11:00 AM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
    4 Evolution of Power Market Development in India EA 2003 & beyond 14 Sep, 2026 (Monday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
    5 Wholesale Power Market in India: A Regulatory Perspective 16 Sep, 2026 (Wednesday) 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Dr. Sushanta Chatterjee, Chief (Regulatory Affairs), CERC
    6 Power System Operation and Deviation Settlement Mechanism 17 Sep, 2026 (Thursday) 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Mr. S.K Soonee, Former and Founder CEO, POSOCO (Grid-India)
    7 Emerging Landscape of the Indian Power Market: General Network Access and Beyond 19 Sep, 2026 (Saturday) 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Ms. Shilpa Agarwal, Joint Chief (Engineering), CERC
    8 Functioning of Power Exchanges: Regulation, Development and Products 19 Sep, 2026 (Saturday) 10:30AM - 11:00 AM Mr. Dhruv Dhiman, VP - Business Development, IEX Ltd
    9 Economics of Power Market: Regulated vs Competitive Procurement 20 Sep, 2026 (Sunday) 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
    10 Competitive Bidding Principles and Guidelines 21 Sep, 2026 (Monday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Mr. Shathish Vasudev, Director, La Caisse
    11 Open Access Regulations,Cross-subsidy and Short-term Power Procurement Practices 22 Sep, 2026 (Tuesday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Mr. Nishant Singhal, Chief Business Officer - Manikaran Power Ltd.
    12 SCED, MBED and beyond 23 Sep, 2026 (Wednesday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
  • Module 2 (Power Procurement Planning and Strategy) (Week-2) arrow_downward
    Live Interactive Session
    Sno. Session Title Date Time Resource Person
    1 Resource Adequacy - Case Study for Discoms 25 Sep, 2026 (Friday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
    2 Resource Adequacy - Principles, Practices and Way Forward 26 Sep, 2026 (Saturday) 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Mr. Ghanshyam Prasad, Chairperson, CEA
    3 Demand Response: National and International Experiences 26 Sep, 2026 (Saturday) (LIVE) 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM TBD
    4 Regional Power Market in South Asia 27 Sep, 2026 (Sunday) (LIVE) 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM CEA
    5 Short-Term Power Procurement Practices 28 Sep, 2026 (Monday) 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Mr. Abhishek Ranjan, Chief Executive Officer & SVP, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited
    6 Derivatives and Risk Management in Power Market 29 Sep, 2026 (Tuesday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Mr. Ashish Bhagtani, AVP - MCX
    7 Contract for Differences (CFD) and Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) - Design and Implementation 30 Sep, 2026 (Wednesday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM MOP
    8 Evolution and Emerging landscape for Ancillary Services 01 Oct, 2026 (Thursday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Mr. Rajiv Porwal, Director (System Operation) GRID-INDIA
    9 Application Strategies for Power Market Derivatives for Discoms, MPPs and OA Consumers 03 Oct, 2026 (Saturday) (LIVE) 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
    10 A Market Monitoring Framework for the Indian Power Sector 05 Oct, 2026 (Monday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
    11 Retail Competition: Indian Perspective and International Experience 06 Oct, 2026 (Tuesday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Mr. Rajat Goel, Director, Deloitte
    12 Brainstorming & Interactive Discussion 08 Oct, 2026 (Thursday) (LIVE) 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IITK
    13 Demo Assessment 09 Oct, 2026 (Friday) 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CER TEAM
    14 Overall Assessment 11 Oct, 2026 (Sunday) CER TEAM

1. Subject to the confirmation by the respective resource person.

2. Recorded Session will be released one day before the "live interactive session".

3. Live sessions recording are released one day after the session.

4. However, the program calendar/duration will be flexible to accommodate availability of the speaker and other constraints.

About this Program

The Program on Power Market Economics and Operation provide insights to the economics, operation & regulatory aspects of power market. The Program would be conducted under the aegis of Office of Outreach Activities, IIT Kanpur.

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Program Duration:

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30+ hours.

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Relevance of the Program:

fiber_manual_record

Understanding the evolution of power market, and regulatory structure for the same

fiber_manual_record

Examining the cost drivers for regulation and ancillary services to maintain the grid security

fiber_manual_record

Understanding the economic operation of power market and power procurement planning

fiber_manual_record

Learning from international experience with power market development

fiber_manual_record

Addressing the present and emerging challenges related to power market

fiber_manual_record

Understanding electricity derivatives

fiber_manual_record

Contracts for Differences

fiber_manual_record

Virtual Power Purchase Agreements for hedging and investment planning

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Key Topics:

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Power Market Regulation

fiber_manual_record

Operation of Power Exchanges

fiber_manual_record

Market Monitoring

fiber_manual_record

Open Access

fiber_manual_record

Distributed Energy Market

fiber_manual_record

Power Procurement Planning

fiber_manual_record

Ancillary Services

fiber_manual_record

Congestion Management

fiber_manual_record

Retail Competition

fiber_manual_record

Load Forecasting

fiber_manual_record

Security Constrained Economic Despatch

fiber_manual_record

Market Based Economic Despatch

fiber_manual_record

Economic Operation of Power System

fiber_manual_record

Resource Adequacy

fiber_manual_record

Power Market Derivatives

fiber_manual_record

Contract for Differences

fiber_manual_record

Virtual Power Purchase Agreement

Learning Outcomes
fiber_manual_record

Conceptual understanding of power market from economics, regulatory and policy perspectives

fiber_manual_record

Opportunity to learn best practices from global experts

fiber_manual_record

Developing the ability to understand the emerging needs for better understanding of power markets

Pedagogy
Mode of delivery:

The program will be delivered in online mode in the form of live and recorded sessions to offer flexibility to the working professionals. The recorded sessions would be hosted at CER’s Online Learning Environment and Tools (OLET) platform. The program will be covered across 4 weeks and include multiple sessions of about 1 hour 30 min each (with total program duration of more than 30 hours).

Who Should Apply

Officials from Electricity Regulatory Commissions (including Members), Generation Companies, Licensees (including Transmission, Distribution and Trading), Commodity/ Stock/ Power Exchanges, Financial Institutions, Banks, Consultants/Analysts, Investors, Lawyers, CAs/CS, Faculty, Researchers and Students from Academic Institutions, Consumer Organizations, NGOs and other stakeholders who want to enhance their understanding of this multidisciplinary area.

Award of Certificate
Participants would be awarded one of the following certificate based on criteria mentioned:

Certificate Type Minimum Criteria
Pre-recorded sessions Live/ Live interective sessions
or their recorded version 		Assessment and Participation
Certificate of Achievement 70% 50% Above the required criteria
Certificate of Participation 50% 30% Below the required criteria

Note:

  • 1. Per session participation/ attendance will be counted only if minimum view duration/ attendance exceeds 80% of duration of the session.
    2. No certificate will be awarded, if the above criteria for minimum attendance is not met or the  performance in the assessment and participation is below the minimum certification criteria for the program
    3. If any candidate fails to appear in the Assessment, no certificate will be awarded

4. Certification criteria may be revised or updated later.

Registration Fee

A. Details of Registration Fee

S. No. Participation Category Fee (INR) Total (INR)
1 Industry*^ 36000 + 18% GST 42480
2 Faculty
  a. IITK
  b. Non-IITK**		  
17000
17000 + 18% GST		  
17000
20060
3 Students
  a. IITK
  b. Non-IITK ***		  
6000
6000 + 18% GST		  
6000
7080
4 SERCs having MoU with CER-IITK 28800 + 18% GST 33984

* Including Commissioners and Officers from Electricity Regulatory Commissions; Stakeholders from Licensees (Transmission, Distribution and Trading), Generating Company Load Dispatch Centers, RE Development Agencies, Financial Institutions, Consultants, Investors, Industrial consumer, IPPs.

# Including NGOs, Consumer Organisation and research institutions (non-corporate).

## Applicable for full-time students, who must submit a bonafide certificate within five working days of registration.

Note:- For each registration only one discount will be applicable.

^ Three or more participants from the same organisation will get 20% discount on registration fee. For group registration for 10 or more participants, please contact us.

Female candidates would receive a further discount of 20%. Cannot be clubbed with any other discount.

B. Important Dates

Registration will commence on: 6th Aug 2026

End date of registration: 10th Sept 2026

Program starts on: 12th Sept 2026

Program ends on: 11th Oct 2026

C. Guidelines for registration process

Contact Us

Centre for Energy Regulation (CER)

Department of Management Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-208016

Phone: +91 512 259 6181

Email: cer_cbp@iitk.ac.in

fiber_manual_record For any query on CER's Regulatory Certification Program (RCP) on "Power Market Economics and Operation"

Write here
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