ESEGH study plan

Map the generation-to-load chain and explain where losses occur at each conversion stage

Calculate three-phase power, per-unit impedance, and line losses for a simple radial feeder

Describe how frequency and voltage are regulated and why inertia and droop response matter

Compare baseload, peaking, and flexible resource roles in a modern dispatch stack

Solve load-flow and economic dispatch problems by hand for a three-bus example

Explain reserve products, ancillary services, and how spinning reserve differs from regulation

Analyze how variable renewable output changes ramp requirements and curtailment risk

Identify grid-forming versus grid-following inverter behavior and its stability implications

Compare conversion efficiencies and capacity factors across solar PV, wind, hydro, and biomass

Compute levelized cost inputs from capacity, capital cost, discount rate, and capacity factor

Explain inverter topology, tracking systems, and degradation effects on PV yield

Describe wind turbine power curves and how siting and wake losses reduce output

Size a battery system for a defined peak-shaving and arbitrage duty cycle

Quantify demand-response potential for an industrial load using interval data

Apply the efficiency hierarchy and calculate savings from motors, lighting, and HVAC retrofits

Explain how time-of-use tariffs and demand charges shape customer load behavior

Perform a simple measurement-and-verification savings calculation using a baseline adjustment

Identify environmental impact pathways for each major generation technology

Compare life-cycle emissions and land and water footprints across technologies

Explain permitting, siting, and community acceptance constraints for new projects

Distinguish carbon tax, cap-and-trade, and performance standards by incentive structure

Explain how renewable portfolio standards and feed-in tariffs shift investment risk

Apply the GHG Protocol scopes to classify a corporate emissions inventory

Compute CO2-equivalent values using global warming potentials and emission factors

Identify uncertainty sources in activity data and emission factor selection

Explain additionality, baseline setting, and leakage in offset accounting

Assess physical, transition, and liability risk categories for an energy asset

Describe adaptation measures for heat, flood, and wildfire exposure in grid infrastructure

Evaluate resilience tradeoffs of hardening, distributed resources, and redundancy

Rehearse timed mixed-domain problem sets and diagnose recurring error patterns

Re-derive the ten formulas most likely to appear under exam pressure

Integrate policy, emissions, and climate risk into one coherent case analysis

Close remaining gaps by reworking every missed question from prior weeks