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Investment: NPV/Annuity
How can someone evaluate an investment?
What does it mean when the net present value of an investment is zero?
What is included in an investment interest rate?
What is not included in the rates?
How can you determine the interest?
If you make an investment but get the return on it after a very long time, so what do you think is
it beneficial?
Would financially make a difference if the revenue would come later? If so what and how much?
If an investor is looking to invest in a base load power plant, what is a very important
consideration they should make in the investment?
How to determine the cost of peak load power plants?
How do I determine the operating mode of the power plants?

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Costs
What are Fixed Costs and variable costs?
Costs for two types of power plants: peak load and base load power plants?
Give examples of each type of power plant?
What is a natural monopoly? Or what would happen if we had a competition?
Why cant you liberalize network operators unlike energy?
How does the cost shares of the network infrastructure (based on network level) and why?
What are the variable and fixed costs at Distribution level?
What are the variable and fixed costs at Generation level?
How can you increase profitability for transmission/generation?

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Regulation
What is cost based and incentive based regulation?
What is efficiency regulation, and what is quality regulation?
What are the 2 types of efficiency regulation methods?
What is ex-post and ex-ante regulation?

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Load Forecasting
24. What the types of load forecasting used for consumers?
25. What may be the cause behind the submitted schedule being different than the target
schedule?
Unbundling
26. How should the network access be handled in a liberalized market?
27. Why is unbundling important for liberalization?
28. What types of unbundling are available? Or three types of unbundling?

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Control/Balancing Power
What are the different types of control power? And how does it work technically?
What is balancing power?
What is the difference between control and balancing energy?
Explain what types reserves are in the network, why and in what order they intervene.
Why the Primary Reserve is replaced?

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Energy Market
What the types of markets available? or
What is the different degree of market opening and competition models?
Which type of market is good for developing economy and why?
What a competition model they would choose in a growing economy and why?
Which model would you recommend for a rapidly growing economy? Why?
If the economy is growing massively, then what is the focus?
If we consider the spot market, how there the price resulted in the case of an over-capacity?
What is marginal cost and merit order?
How to cover for the expenses of power plants with high marginal costs?
What is the difference between Power Exchange and OTC (bilateral trade)?