本课程是一个正在迅速发展的交叉学科领域，理论先于实践，因此本课程从理论出发，辅以国、内外电力市场分析和实际案例讨论，重点介绍电力市场的基本概念、类型、功能及其运行框架，典型国家电力工业改革成功和失败的案例，电力市场环境下电价调节市场的功能和定价方法，电力市场的负荷预测及电价预测种类、特点、步骤和方法，电力市场环境下发电商投标对策以及电力市场技术支持系统等六个部分知识。

This course situates within an academic field of flying development, for which, theoretical work often precedes practice. As the result, this course is based on theoretical knowledge, is assisted by analysis of worldwide electricity market and discussion of actual cases, and introduces primarily six parts of contents, which include: 1. basic concepts, types, functions and operation frames of electricity market; 2. typical successful and failed cases of national electrical industrial reforms; 3. the effects of guiding market by adjusting electricity price and the rules for deciding on electricity price under the atmosphere of an electricity market; 4. the category, characteristics, steps and manners of electricity market anticipation for loads and prices; 5. power generation industries bidding maneuvers within the environment of an electricity market; 6. technique support system of electricity market.