On March 23-27, 2015, Levan Pavlenishvili, Research Fellow at ISET-PI, Energy Policy Research Center, attended Ph.D. Winter School on “Energy Systems and Markets” in Kvitfjell, Norway. The course covered topics of market design, operations and investment, risk modeling and pricing on energy, primarily on electricity markets. Methods used during the offered course were: computational equilibrium analysis, stochastic optimization and deterministic optimization. The course consisted of 30 hours of lectures and Levan acquired 2.5 ECTS credits for attending the winter school.
Winter school was organized by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and Center for Sustainable Energy Studies (CenSES).

The course involved Ph.D. and Master degree students with the major in energy economics and power engineering from all around the world, including Asia, Africa, and Americas.
As energy economics is one of the most important priorities of ISET and its Policy Institute, attending winter school was very useful both for the professional development of Levan Pavlenishvili and acquiring new contacts and possibilities of cooperation in the field of energy economics.