Leadership in Energy Transition Certificate
Our Leadership in Energy Transition Certificate program offers a comprehensive learning journey designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge needed to drive and navigate the global shift towards sustainable energy systems.
By enrolling in this program, candidates can expect to gain:
Analyzing Current Global Energy Systems: Utilize scientific and engineering principles to analyze existing global energy systems. Critically review methods for change and development, addressing energy supply and demand systems, life cycle analysis, energy efficiency, and environmental consequences. Gain insights into the intricate interplay between energy sources and their environmental impact, especially in the context of climate change.
Navigating Competing Priorities in Energy Transition: Understand the complex landscape of transitioning to a low-carbon energy world. Explore various energy sources, viewpoints, and priorities involved in the transition process. Discover how to optimize transition processes while considering competing objectives. Delve into the drivers, uncertainties, and potential scenarios of energy transition, and learn to harmonize priorities for successful progress.
Private Equity’s Role in Energy Transition: Examine the increasing role of private equity financing in the energy transition. Analyze the transformation of the energy economy from publicly traded fossil fuel companies to privately held low-carbon entities. Understand how private equity impacts the operations and outcomes of clean energy companies, including their finances and operations oversight.
Assessing Impact on Industries: Gain critical perspectives on climate goals and their impact on vulnerable industries. Understand the implications of transitioning to sustainability, aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Develop frameworks for evaluating the consequences of climate change for various industries, focusing on energy accessibility, reliability, security, and sustainability.
Enrolling in the Leadership in Energy Transition Certificate program equips candidates with a comprehensive skillset in analyzing energy systems, understanding competing priorities, navigating private equity’s role, and assessing the impact on industries. This preparation empowers them to drive the energy transition, contribute effectively to sustainable energy initiatives, and shape a resilient and low-carbon future.
MODULE 1: CURRENT GLOBAL ENERGY SYSTEMS
In this module, students will be able to utilize basic scientific and engineering principles to analyze current fundamental global energy systems and use those principles to critically review methods for change and development. Topics will include energy supply and demand systems, life cycle analysis, energy efficiency, and the environmental consequences of various sources such as global climate change in the 21st century.
MODULE 2: UNDERSTANDING COMPETING PRIORITIES WHEN IMPLEMENTING ENERGY TRANSITION STRATEGY
The module is designed to introduce students to the significant changes and competing objectives to the global energy and related industries resulting from the transition to a low carbon energy world. Students will learn about the many energy sources available, examine competing viewpoints to enable energy transition, and discuss how we can optimize transition processes. Finally, discuss how competing priorities can work together to progress the energy transition process and create pathways to achieve our goals. Topics will include the drivers of the transition, uncertainty of the nature and pace of the transition and different points of view and potential scenarios, as well as business opportunities and threats created by the transition.
MODULE 3: PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTING IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION
This module will examine how private equity financing is increasingly becoming a part of the energy transition, how clean energy companies are waiting longer before going public, and how the energy economy is gradually transforming from one dominated by publicly traded fossil fuel companies into one dominated by privately held low-carbon ones. It will analyze operations and outcomes from less oversight of their finances and operations by regulators. Topics will include understanding the magnitude of change and investment required to achieve the energy transition, identifying sources and trends of energy financing, and recognizing primary agents in various types of private capital (private equity, friends & family, investors, venture capital, infrastructure funds, etc), their objectives, and their pros and cons. Specifically with a focus on private equity and the advantages and disadvantages across time.
MODULE 4: IMPACT OF TRANSITION ON INDUSTRIES
This module aims to provide critical perspectives on the climate goals in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the impact of transition to sustainability in terms of vulnerable industries. It will provide a framework for thinking about climate change and its consequences for business. Topics will include methods of transitioning, approaches, and outcomes necessary to reconcile ensuring energy accessibility, reliability, security, and sustainability for all impacted industries.