International Energy Management

Aim

The energy transition is changing the conditions for how companies and organizations work with energy issues. Increased demands related to energy efficiency, renewable energy and climate change mean that organizations need to understand both internal energy management practices and the external policies and regulations that affect them.

The overall aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge and analytical skills to reflect how energy management in organizations interacts with international, EU and national energy policy instruments and regulations.

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• Explain key economic concepts linked to energy systems, including market failures and barriers to energy efficiency, as well as the main European and national policy and regulatory frameworks that support the energy transition.
• Apply concepts and methods related to organizational energy management work, including energy management systems, energy key figures, benchmarking methods and operational improvement practices in industrial contexts.
• Analyze and propose improvements to how energy policy instruments, policy programs and voluntary initiatives affect organizations' energy work and energy efficiency in industry.
• Evaluate the design and effectiveness of corporate energy management programs by selecting and applying relevant evaluation methods.

Content

The course deals with the interaction between organizational energy management practices and policies and regulations that support the energy transition. The course combines perspectives from energy economics, industrial energy operations and public policy.

The course covers the following themes:

• Economic perspectives on energy systems, including market conditions and the role of policy instruments in the energy transition.
• International, European and national policy and regulatory frameworks linked to energy efficiency, renewable energy and climate action.
• Instruments, policy programs and voluntary initiatives that aim to support improvements in energy performance within organizations, as well as an introduction to how data-driven methods and visualizations can be used to analyze and interpret the effects of instruments
• Organizational measures for energy work and improving energy performance in industrial contexts.