Balance of Power is a facilitated, team-based energy-market simulation workshop. Participants lead competing energy companies through changing demand, technology costs, market conditions and policy pressures, making investment and operational decisions and experiencing their consequences.
Across 12 rounds, teams build generation portfolios, bid into a simplified Australian electricity market and navigate the competing pressures of affordability, reliability, emissions, investment and system risk.
Electricity-market decisions rarely optimise for a single objective. Cost, reliability, emissions, flexibility, investment timing and commercial performance interact, often producing unintended consequences.
Balance of Power puts participants inside those decisions.
Rather than simply hearing how electricity markets and the energy transition work, participants make choices, see the market respond and adapt their strategy as conditions change.
The result is a shared experience that makes complex market trade-offs tangible and creates a practical foundation for discussion, reflection and professional learning.
Across 12 rounds and three escalating eras, participants respond to changing demand, weather, market rules and external events. They operate and expand their portfolios, bid across day, evening and night periods, experience market clearing and system stress, and adapt their strategies as conditions evolve.
Participants do not simply operate software individually. They work in multidisciplinary teams, debating investment choices, market behaviour and risk while competing against other teams in the same evolving electricity system.
The format naturally generates discussion around questions such as:
The learning happens in the discussion before the decision.
Three central elements of the experience are:
Invest in solar, wind, storage, gas, coal, nuclear and demand-side flexibility while managing your budget, construction times and evolving generation portfolio.
Submit sealed bids across day, evening and night periods while responding to changing demand, weather, available generation and market conditions.
Compare strategies and explore what the results reveal about reliability, flexibility, emissions, investment timing and market design.
The workshop creates a practical basis for exploring:
Who is it for?
The complete experience combines the 12-round simulation with team decision-making and a structured facilitated debrief.
Participants work in small competing teams, allowing different professional perspectives to contribute to investment and market decisions.
Typical format: approximately 3 hours, adapted to cohort size and learning objectives.
The format can also be adapted around a particular audience, energy-transition theme or stakeholder discussion.
Customisation can include emphasis on particular technologies, market dynamics, strategic questions or debrief themes.
Formats are confirmed following an initial discussion of the audience, objectives, cohort size and available time.
Balance of Power was developed by Dr Antonin Demazy de Fortet, Founder and Principal of GG Advisory, drawing on more than 20 years of international experience across energy systems, strategy and emerging technologies.
Antonin holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne and an Executive MBA from ESCP Business School. His experience spans energy strategy, electricity systems, market development and the commercialisation of emerging technologies.
Balance of Power combines that technical and commercial perspective in an accessible facilitated learning experience.
