Editor’s notice: That is a part of a sequence on closing the sustainability abilities hole with the sources out there proper now. The gathering consists of over a dozen articles and greater than 200 coaching alternatives in areas equivalent to local weather and net-zero technique, procurement and provide chain, ESG and sustainable finance, skilled certifications and free upskilling.
Loads of gamers are concerned in driving the worldwide vitality transition, and the group at Duke College’s Heart for Power, Growth, and the International Surroundings printed a diagram of the vitality worth chain earlier this yr that illustrates the complexity of the vitality sector properly. On the most simple degree, entities fall roughly into one in all three classes: vitality suppliers; vitality finish customers; and supporting organizations. The beneath assortment of coaching alternatives will profit anybody serving to organizational vitality finish customers to develop or procure renewable vitality. Whether or not you’re a sustainability skilled at an organization pursuing net-zero targets, a guide serving to purchasers to include renewable vitality into their portfolios or a monetary skilled curious about funding these initiatives, there’s something right here for you.Â
The primary group of choices present context and a big-picture understanding of the worldwide vitality transition and grid modernization. The subsequent group affords frameworks for incorporating fairness and justice concerns into energy-related initiatives and choices. The third group offers each overviews and deep dives on clear and renewable era and storage applied sciences, and the ultimate group facilities on abilities for transferring particular initiatives ahead with programs from find out how to consider a challenge’s profitability and threat to find out how to safe financing from quite a lot of sources.Â
No curation of renewable vitality sources can be full with out mentioning the unbelievable work of each the Clear Power Consumers Affiliation (CEBA) and the Clear Power Management Institute (CELI). Whereas neither affords publicly out there programs — the CELI fellowship utility is aggressive and CEBA participation requires organizational membership — each have been coaching leaders in renewable vitality for a few years and supply excellent studying experiences.Â
The adoption of renewable vitality can also be only one a part of what vitality finish customers must be engaged on. The beneath programs don’t cowl vitality effectivity, weatherization, demand response, electrification or electrical automobiles — all of which ought to arguably be addressed previous to assessing your renewable vitality wants. These abilities, together with abilities associated to the availability facet of issues, would be the matters of future articles.Â
As is commonly the case with these kinds of lists, I’m certain I’ve missed some. In case your favourite providing isn’t included right here, I warmly invite you to be a part of the dialog on LinkedIn to inform me and your fellow readers about it. Thanks upfront on your assist with bringing these sources out into the open in order that extra folks can get to work on advancing sustainable enterprise practices.Â
Programs on the worldwide vitality transition and grid modernization
These programs present essential context across the world vitality transition. Each emphasizes a novel mixture of the assorted features of the transition: expertise; geopolitics; environmental affect; enterprise fashions; and grid modernization.Â
Energy Sector Decarbonisation and Power Transition from Shortlisted Productions
This course offers an summary of the developments within the energy sector, together with the transition to a low-carbon financial system and emergence of latest vitality enterprise fashions. It covers key vitality sources and the way the grid is altering to combine renewables (grid modernization, grid flexibility, long-duration vitality storage) and the affect of varied applied sciences on the vitality sector together with carbon seize, storage and utilization, battery storage, hydrogen, superior fission, small modular reactors and nuclear fusion. This coaching could be taken individually or as a part of the Local weather Change and Sustainability Professionals Program.Â
- Value: 49.99 British kilos (roughly $64)
- Time to finish: 2.5 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand movies
- Key matters lined: Introduction to the vitality transition and the response from the fossil gasoline business; energy sector transition and integration of renewables into the grid; biofuels and hydrogen; nuclear energy; crucial minerals for the vitality transition
Reworking the Grid: AI, Renewables, Storage, EVs, and Prosumers from Stanford On-line
This course teaches methods for the modernization of the electrical grid to assist the incorporation of renewable vitality sources equivalent to wind and photo voltaic and the rising use of storage, electrical automobiles and sensible units. The main target is on the deployment of remodeling applied sciences together with synthetic intelligence (AI), machine studying (ML), sensors, controls and communications units.Â
- Value: $395
- Time to finish: 6 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, workouts, quiz
- Key matters lined: How electrical energy is generated, transmitted and distributed; utilizing AI and ML for forecasting, demand response, community administration and figuring out asset areas; the digital transformation of the grid and the position of prosumers; calculating pricing and fee fashions for storage and renewables; managing the affect of EV charging demand; choosing storage applied sciences for managing intermittency and guaranteeing grid reliabilityÂ
Clear Power Transitions 101 from Terra.do
This introductory course explores the elemental rules driving world clear vitality transitions. Learners will develop the power to calculate the alternatives, prices and impacts of those transitions, uncover high-impact pathways to decarbonize vitality methods, determine bottlenecks within the clear vitality worth chain and perceive the interconnectedness of coverage, justice, expertise, labor and markets.Â
- Subsequent begin date: Fall 2024
- Value: $399
- Time to finish: 4 weeks, 4 hours per week
- Coaching format: Reside on-line lessons, workouts
- Key matters lined: The clear vitality panorama; vitality evaluation; electrify all the things; scaling the sensible grid; batteries; quantitative instruments for energy sector planning; EVs and decarbonizing long-haul transport; warmth pumps; cleansing up metal, cement, fertilizers and plastics; coverage, regulation and market design for enabling vitality transitions; electrical energy charges and economics; politics and justice in vitality
International Power Transition from the Renewable Power InstituteÂ
The Renewable Power Institute affords coaching that has been developed in shut partnership with organizations such because the United Nations Surroundings Programme and main universities across the globe. This course will information learners via the complexity and challenges of the worldwide vitality transition from fossil fuels to different sources of vitality. The fabric consists of a variety of examples and case research for example every idea.
- Value: 540 British kilos (roughly $685)
- Time to finish: 20 to 30 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, non-obligatory certification examination
- Key matters lined: The terminology and historical past of the worldwide vitality transition; applied sciences, electrical energy and provide chain decarbonisation; ESG; COP, commitments, and the position of the U.N.; world challenges and geopolitics; insurance policies and the position of governments; worldwide, nationwide and industrial challenges and options for decarbonization; the Sustainable Growth Targets and their affect
Power Transition from Infocus Worldwide
This reside on-line course is designed to supply enterprise decision-makers with a complete overview of the vitality transition: what it means, the technological options which can compete and coexist, and the coverage and sensible components that can decide deployment pathways. Attendees will depart capable of make extra knowledgeable funding choices based mostly on a nuanced understanding of how the items of the vitality transition match collectively, hyperlink and work together.Â
- Subsequent begin date: Began July 9; new dates will likely be introduced quickly
- Value: From $1,500
- Time to finish: 4 weeks, 3 hours per week
- Coaching format: Reside on-line lessons, workouts
- Key matters lined: The altering vitality combine and pathways to internet zero; electrification: its drivers, purposes and limitations; sources and purposes of “clear fuels”; Carbon Seize and Storage (CCS): a lifeline for fossil gasoline producers?
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Programs on supporting an equitable transition
These programs present an understanding of the fairness and justice concerns associated to the renewable vitality transition in addition to frameworks to assist guarantee particular person initiatives assist a extra equitable future.
Gender Equality and Human Rights in Local weather Motion and Renewable Power from the One UN Local weather Change Studying Partnership
This course affords two studying pathways: one for renewable vitality consultants and monetary establishments and one for policymakers. Contributors could comply with one or each pathways. The course offers an summary of the interlinkages between gender, human rights, local weather change, and renewable vitality and allows individuals to combine and implement gender equality into renewable vitality planning.Â
- Value: Free
- Time to finish: 6 hoursÂ
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, movies, workouts
- Key matters lined: The nexus between gender equality, human rights, renewable vitality and local weather change; find out how to implement gender responsive and human rights-based renewable vitality insurance policies and entrepreneurship; gender and human rights in local weather motion; turning commitments into motionÂ
Power Justice: Fostering Extra Equitable Power Futures from Dartmouth Faculty
This course introduces the idea of vitality justice and offers a toolkit to determine and leverage alternatives to extend equity and fairness in energy-related choices and actions. Learners will likely be outfitted to acknowledge and confront vitality injustice of their private {and professional} lives, and to assist envision and foster vitality justice in society.
- Value: Free
- Time to finish: 16 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand movies, studying, quizzes
- Key matters lined: Power justice and its relationship to environmental justice, local weather justice, and vitality democracy; structural inequity the affect of historic racism on vitality methods; vitality justice rules and frameworks; types of injustice in vitality methods and potential cures; integrating vitality justice into skilled work and civic life; advocating for vitality justice
Clear and Equitable Power Growth Certificates from Yale Heart for Enterprise and the Surroundings and the Yale Heart for Environmental Justice
This program allows policymakers, builders and communities affected by vitality initiatives to know key justice rules and their implication within the improvement course of, construct capability for the design of unpolluted vitality initiatives that advance fairness, and develop a community of leaders advancing an equitable transition to a clear financial system. Contributors will discover ways to design and consider clear vitality initiatives, promote insurance policies that speed up the simply vitality transition and advocate on behalf of weak communities that might be or are already affected by vitality disaster and inequality.
- Subsequent begin date: Jan. 14
- Value: $4,500
- Time to finish: 12 weeks, 5 hours per week
- Coaching format: Reside on-line lessons, on-demand movies, quizzes, assignmentsÂ
- Key matters lined: Foundations of vitality; foundations of environmental and local weather justice; vitality poverty, vitality justice and simply vitality transition; rules for a clear, inexpensive, simply and equitable vitality challenge; website choice and interconnection; neighborhood engagement; origination; vitality markets and deal structuring; procurement, development and operations and upkeep
Programs on renewable vitality era and storage applied sciences
A few of these programs present an summary of a number of renewable vitality era and storage applied sciences as a way to discover ways to choose probably the most acceptable answer on your challenge’s wants. Different programs concentrate on a single answer and supply a extra detailed understanding of the expertise’s parts, era potential, market alternatives, deployment necessities, worth chain, aggressive panorama and financial concerns.Â
Renewable Power Know-how Fundamentals from College of Colorado, Boulder
This course begins with an summary of the important thing bodily traits of electrical energy and renewable vitality after which covers the benefits and downsides of every expertise in order that learners can consider and advocate particular era and storage applied sciences for initiatives. This course is obtainable individually or as a part of a renewable vitality specialization, which additionally covers renewable energy and electrical energy methods, renewable vitality initiatives and renewable vitality futures.
- Value: Free
- Time to finish: 12 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand movies, studying, quizzes, last evaluation
- Key matters lined: Power fundamentals; wind vitality; photo voltaic vitality; different renewable vitality applied sciences equivalent to hydropower, biomass, concentrated photo voltaic, geothermal and ocean vitality; vitality storage together with pumped hydro, batteries, thermal storage and hydrogen storage
Clear, Renewable Power & Storage for a Sustainable Future from Stanford On-line
This course teaches learners find out how to consider methods for remodeling our vitality infrastructure and insurance policies on the native, regional and world ranges. Particular emphasis is positioned on understanding how every expertise works and its affect on local weather change, air air pollution and vitality safety. That is a part of a collection of on-line programs from Stanford On-line associated to vitality expertise which additionally consists of an in-depth course on vitality storage. Courses could be taken individually or as a part of the Power Innovation and Rising Applied sciences Certificates Program.Â
- Value: $395
- Time to finish: 12 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, workouts, quiz
- Key matters lined: Power expertise’s affect on air high quality, well being, land and water use, grid reliability, fairness and safety; vitality applied sciences: wind, water, photo voltaic, storage, coal, pure fuel, hydrofracking, nuclear, and carbon seize; industrial vitality consumption; transportation: EVs, hydrogen gasoline cell vehicles, buses and plane; vitality storage applied sciences: batteries, flywheels and hydroelectric storage; transition insurance policiesÂ
Renewable expertise overview and specialised programs from the Renewable Power Institute
Every course offers an summary of how the expertise works, how the expertise’s market works, concerns for grid connectivity, requirements, financing and laws. Learners could take an non-obligatory last examination on the finish of every course to earn a Galileo Grasp Certificates, and programs could also be mixed to earn vitality knowledgeable certificates. Some programs are additionally supplied in a reside on-line format.Â
- Value: 410 to 540 British kilos (roughly $500 to $685) per course
- Time to finish: 20 to 30 hours per course
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, non-obligatory certification examination
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Making use of Renewable Power — Full Overview from Renewables Academy
This customizable program consists of programs protecting the basics of as much as seven renewable vitality applied sciences: photovoltaics, windpower, biogas, photo voltaic thermal, small hydro energy, concentrated solar energy (CSP) and PV-diesel hybrid methods. The academy additionally offers learners with free entry to brief, non-obligatory introductory programs on vitality and electrical energy fundamentals and affords an in depth catalog of challenge improvement, expertise and finance programs and certification packages, together with ones on inexperienced hydrogen and vitality storage expertise.Â
- Value: From 749.70 euros (roughly $675)
- Subsequent begin date: Oct. 1
- Time to finish: 100 hours throughout 6 months
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, reside on-line webinars, assignments, last examination
- Key matters lined: How the expertise works; expertise markets and purposes; system sorts, useful resource necessities, parts and sizing; website evaluation; bodily and environmental concerns; vitality yield and efficiency ratio calculations; financial analysisÂ
Clear Power Options from MIT Skilled Schooling
This course presents a holistic and quantitative image of unpolluted vitality options — together with {hardware} — to fulfill emissions discount targets. Contributors will use knowledge to judge clear vitality methods, mannequin emissions discount frameworks inside their very own group, develop a goal expertise portfolio and strategize in regards to the improvement and adoption of unpolluted vitality applied sciences.Â
- Subsequent begin date: Began July 9; new dates will likely be introduced quickly
- Value: $3,200
- Time to finish: 8 to 10 hours per week for 8 weeks
- Coaching format: Reside on-line lessons, workouts
- Key matters lined: Understanding vitality provide and demand applied sciences; evaluating vitality conversion and storage applied sciences; analyzing technological change trajectories; modeling carbon emissions discount eventualities throughout vitality methods; optimizing expertise portfolios on your group; efficient methods for innovation
Renewable expertise specialised programs from Infocus Worldwide
Infocus Worldwide offers a collection of coaching choices designed to supply enterprise builders and buyers with an accessible, concise and complete understanding of the processes and dangers concerned in renewable vitality and storage initiatives. Every course covers a given expertise’s terminologies, metrics, worth chain, market alternatives, deployment concerns, aggressive panorama and financial variables that have an effect on the enterprise case. All programs are delivered reside on-line within the GMT time zone.Â
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Programs for valuing and financing clear vitality initiativesÂ
These programs focus on the monetary and threat features of renewable vitality initiatives. Some take an investor’s perspective and concentrate on understanding the dangers or economics of initiatives, whereas others present an summary of funding choices and find out how to pursue them. Nonetheless others do each. The frequent thread is that these programs present abilities for assessing, managing or financing particular person initiatives to assist them transfer ahead.
Renewable Power Venture Finance from Renewables Academy
This course focuses on find out how to acquire funding from monetary establishments that analyze the bankability of wind, PV and biogas initiatives throughout the due diligence course of. Learners will perceive the completely different financing choices for renewable vitality initiatives; carry out a threat evaluation of a challenge; perceive challenge dangers and considerations from a financial institution’s standpoint and perceive the information necessities for bankability evaluation of a challenge.Â
- Subsequent begin date: Began July 3; new dates will likely be introduced quickly
- Value: From 270 euros (roughly $257)
- Time to finish: 25 hours throughout 1 month
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, reside on-line webinars, assignments, last examination
- Key matters lined: Venture worth chains; financing choices for RE initiatives; particular goal automobile contract negotiations; enterprise planning for RE initiatives; bankability assessments; monetary engineering; RE challenge case research
Renewable Power — Photo voltaic Monetary Modeling from the Company Finance InstituteÂ
This photo voltaic monetary modeling course covers crucial ideas in evaluating the profitability of a renewable vitality challenge. Learners are given a confidential info memorandum (CIM) containing challenge particulars and financials and are then guided via constructing a monetary mannequin and analyzing the return to buyers. That is one in all 200-plus programs and 6 certifications included in a self-study annual membership from CFI.Â
- Value: $298.20 for an annual membership
- Time to finish: 6.5 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning
- Key matters lined: The definition of renewable vitality and essential business phrases; the event timeline and funding construction of a photo voltaic challenge; developing a sturdy monetary mannequin for a photo voltaic challenge; calculating key return metrics (NPV, IRR, credit score metrics, money stream, payback) and the capital stack to evaluate the challenge’s profitability
Economics of the Clear Power Transition from Stanford On-line
This course allows each firms and households to match various vitality methods with completely different capital expenditures and ongoing working prices. Contributors can even be taught the position of public coverage devices together with taxes, laws and incentives in accelerating the transition away from conventional fossil fuels.Â
- Value: $395
- Time to finish: 6 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, workouts, quiz
- Key matters lined: Assessing the price competitiveness of various vitality applied sciences; the position of markets and public coverage; evaluating the price of renewable vitality, electrical automobiles, and vitality storage in opposition to fossil fuels; calculating the price for vitality initiatives utilizing a Levelized Value of Electrical energy (LCOE) and the Levelized Value per Mile Pushed (LCOMD); the altering enterprise mannequin for utilities
Renewables Analyst Certification from Voiz Academy
This course offers each a high-level understanding of the tendencies, gamers, applied sciences and markets concerned within the world vitality transition and hands-on expertise with the instruments required to judge particular alternatives on the challenge degree. There’s emphasis on the event of a nuanced understanding of the relationships, laws, dangers, enterprise fashions and funding mechanisms that exist alongside the facility worth chain in order that analysts can assess any challenge inside the acceptable context. After its September launch, this certification will likely be added to Voiz Academy’s limitless sustainability upskilling platform.Â
- Subsequent begin date: Sept. 7
- Value: $495 for an annual subscription, get 10 % off with code GB10
- Time to finish: 36 to 48 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, assignments
- Key matters lined: Sorts of initiatives and applied sciences; the facility worth chain; enterprise fashions for energy era and distribution; modeling a renewable challenge from a monetary and stakeholder perspective; forecasting and analyzing threat from pricing fluctuations, regulatory modifications and improvement; modeling the worth of subsidies together with renewable vitality certificates, tax credit and concessionary financing
Renewable Power Market Developments and Finance from the Renewable Power InstituteÂ
This course teaches individuals find out how to handle renewable vitality initiatives, perceive insurance policies and funds and use financing instruments. The course allows individuals to work efficiently within the renewables and inexperienced finance industries, each domestically and internationally and is appropriate for these with each a primary and superior understanding of the sector.Â
- Value: From $595
- Time to finish: 20 to 30 hours
- Coaching format: On-demand e-learning, non-obligatory certification examination
- Key matters lined: Introduction to renewable vitality; renewable vitality market tendencies & finance; U.S. authorities coverage and assist schemes; creating nation financing: microlending, multilateral banks, crowdfunding; challenge finance together with deal structuring and finance instruments equivalent to PACE, CREBs and QZEBs
Reside on-line challenge financing programs from Infocus Worldwide
Infocus Worldwide additionally offers a collection of choices associated to renewable vitality challenge financing which covers monetary modeling and transaction administration methods, studying, writing and negotiating energy buy agreements and public-private partnerships. Every course is designed to allow individuals to efficiently navigate and full these transactions and offers real-life challenge examples from Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Center East, Europe and North America.
Financing and Deploying Clear Power Certificates from the Yale Heart for Enterprise and the Surroundings
The important thing goals of this program are to develop a strong community of unpolluted vitality consultants on the forefront of our vitality transition and to assist professionals perceive the interaction of the monetary, technological and socioeconomic drivers in financing and deploying clear vitality. Contributors will acquire an understanding of the challenges related to present insurance policies, vitality enterprise fashions, applied sciences and improvement practices and can be taught the important thing levers for change in varied sectors to beat these obstacles.
- Subsequent begin date: July 2025
- Value: $10,800
- Time to finish: 10 months, 5 hours per week
- Coaching format: Reside on-line lessons, on-demand movies, quizzes, assignmentsÂ
- Key matters lined: Power foundations; finance foundations; clear vitality coverage together with electrical utility coverage, carbon pricing and vitality justice; expertise transitions together with photo voltaic, wind, transmission, distribution and storage; renewable vitality challenge finance; innovation together with inexperienced banks, IT, carbon removing, geoengineering, subsequent gen nuclear and the grid of the longer term
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