1. Energy project business cases along the entire value chain (e.g. analysis & evaluation of investment projects, investment decision analysis, make-or-buy-decisions).
2. Assessing and evaluating strategies of international energy companies.
3. Market entry & exit strategies (e.g. measurement of exposure, setting-up & monitoring of an asset portfolio, measurement of risk & return). 

After attending this course, students will be able to (learning outcomes clustered in 5 interlinked areas): 

1. Analyse, evaluate & interprete energy project business cases (case studies along the entire value chain).
2. Analyse, evaluate & interprete strategies of international energy companies.
3. Identify, analyse & evaluate market entry & exit strategies and their business plans.
4. Analyse, set-up and perform the basics of company evaluations of energy companies along the energy value chain.
5. Understand, Analyse & interprete the "big picture" of energy economics and ist place within the energy industry developments.

In addition, this course fosters additionally the following:

• Develop practice (caste studies-based & practical examples)
• Oriented solutions for a specific problem based on theoretical concepts and models
• Develop understanding & analytical knowledge for energy industry and ist linkage to commercial & economic concepts 

The content of this course will be delivered throughthe following combination of teaching materials:

A) Case studies, understanding & setting-uppractitioners‘ tools

B) Renowned & current academic publications

C) Reports published by international organizations inthe energy industry, company reports

Completed IB Foundations (Class I – Basics) andApplications (Class II)