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Training

In the modern world, continuing training and education are invaluable and an indispensable requirement for the growth of any company.

Quantum understands continuous training as a need for employment growth, to maintain the high level that customers demand every day, and to help organizations achieve greater competitiveness. This is why QUANTUM offers in-company training courses on regulation issues, aimed at company executives. These courses are delivered in their own offices and a customized program is followed or through open seminars with a subject matter and duration previously published.

The training involves the following topics:

• Microeconomic Foundations of Regulation: Demand, Supply, Market, Surpluses, Optima, Competition and Monopoly, the Marginalist approach to tariffication.
  
• Regulatory Strategies: Regulation by Service Cost, Regulation by Incentives, Price Cap, Hybrid Approaches.
• Tariff Methodology: Cost Function, Welfare Maximization, Optimum Tariffs for Capacity Use, TOU Tariffs, Sustainability, Ramsey Tariffs, Mean Cost Allocation by Peak Responsibility, Demand Projections, Load Characterization Study.
• Capital Cost: Capital Base, Capital Cost, Capital Cost Rate, Donated Capital, New Replacement Value.
• Operating Costs and Non-Technical Losses: Efficient Cost, Cost Indicators, Benchmarking, Non-Technical Loss Optimization, Cost Projection.
• Optimum Tariff Structures: Cost Allocation, Annual and Seasonal Tariffs, Responsibility Factors, VAD Decomposition, Cost Curve, Optimum Tariff Blocks.
• Market Simulation: simulation of the behavior of agents within the electricity industry. Dispatches by order of merit to cover the demand. Minimum cost dispatch.
• Market-risk in the Price-Cap: Tariff Variation, Exogenous Variables, Efficiency Factor.
• Network Optimization and Technical Losses Study: Green Field (Top-Down) models, Real Optimized Network (Bottom-Up) models.