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Investment & Finance for Energy & Sustainability Management

Niveau

Consolidation

Learning outcomes of the courses/module

The students are able to:
• Name key business profitability figures
• Discuss investment decisions in projects and other economic decision alternatives
• Explain procedures of business valuation and options of contract design with differ-ent types of services between provider and customer
• Name methods of carrying out economic evaluations

Prerequisites for the course

Fundamentals of Business Administration & Economics (ECO.1)

Course content

• Investment decision as a process in the entrepreneurial environment
• Static and dynamic procedures of investment calculation
• Profitability ratios of the profitability calculation
• Case studies of investments in the generation and distribution grid sector as well as in sales and customer projects
• Energy and environmental protection services from the supplier and customer point of view
• Contract design of different service models

Recommended specialist literature

• Schoenmaker, D., & Schramade, W. (2023). Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35009-2
• Thewissen, J., Arslan-Ayaydin, Ö., Westerman, W., & Dorsman, A. (Eds.). (2024). The ESG Framework and the Energy Industry: Demand and Supply, Market Policies and Value Creation. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48457-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Language

English

Number of ECTS credits awarded

4

Semester hours per week

Planned teaching and learning method

Blended Learning

Semester/trimester in which the course/module is offered

2

Type of course/module

Type of course