"Energy Risk Professional (ERP 2020/2021) Part 2 focuses on the financial energy markets.

Financial energy markets describe the financial instruments that are used to facilitate the trading of various energy products through exchanges or over-the-counter transactions.

Energy trading involves products like crude oil, electricity, natural gas, and wind power. Since these commodities often fluctuate abruptly they can be attractive to speculators. Energy Markets is organized into five sections, covering the following component parts of the energy complex:

? the basics of energy trading:

• economic and social forces shaping energy markets;

• organization of an energy trading company;

• the “plumbing” of the energy markets (the basic components

of market infrastructure); and

• recent legal and regulatory developments.

? natural gas markets;

? crude oil and refined products markets;

? electricity markets; and

? emission markets. (Kaminski, V, 2012)

You have made a very valuable decision to learn about the physical side of energy trading markets. It is a smart huge investment of your time and energy. This practice series will help you expand your knowledge of the physical side of energy trading markets using an effective questions and solutions methodology. Congratulations!!

The 60 questions with full solutions and explanations are distributed over 6 practice tests. As you aim for 80 percent in the practice tests, you will build your knowledge and gain meaningful awareness of the financial side of energy trading markets.