Weeks
Twelve weeks, twelve claims. Each studio owns one property of the event, and no two own the same one.
The seminar makes the week's argument; the studio is where you test it against the shared trace. Every week states the one property of the event it owns, whether it advances, complicates or challenges the course's central claim, and what the following week needs from it.
All twelve resolve against one definition, at the event.
The Average Is Lying to You
Two descriptions of one system — an annual share and an hourly trace — and what each is fit for.
Week 1 · 27 July 2026
When Does Bad Weather Become a Drought?
Building an operative definition: threshold, span, recovery allowance, scope, season.
Week 2 · 3 August 2026
The Weather Does Not Fail Independently
Correlated output, and why independent-generator arithmetic overstates a fleet's reliability.
Week 3 · 10 August 2026
How Big Is the Weather?
The size of a weather system set against the size of the grid underneath it.
Week 4 · 17 August 2026
Below Cut-In
Power curves, cut-in speed, and what a fleet does when the wind is merely weak.
Week 5 · 24 August 2026
Solar Helps, Until Wind and Sun Fail Together
Wind and solar through a winter anticyclone, tested hour by hour rather than on annual averages.
Week 6 · 31 August 2026
Storage Is Two Problems Wearing One Name
Power and energy as separate specifications, and which one a multi-day event actually tests.
Week 7 · 7 September 2026
The Generator You Hope Never Runs
The economics of reserve plant: paying for capacity whose value is in not being needed.
Week 8 · 14 September 2026
Who Gets Turned Off?
Load shedding as an allocation problem, once the technical options have run out.
Week 9 · 21 September 2026
A Forecast Is Only Useful While You Can Still Act
Forecast skill set against the lead time each available action needs.
Week 10 · 28 September 2026
Every Failure Gets a Story Afterwards
Post-mortems as documents with authors, and the system boundaries they assume.
Week 11 · 5 October 2026
The System You Are Willing to Defend
Studio critique of the systems you have built, and the failure boundaries you declare for them.
Week 12 · 12 October 2026