Reshaping the education of energy managers

Abstract Newly educated Energy managers will play a key role in the unfolding global transition to renewable energy and sustainability. We describe a new approach to energy management education via a cross-disciplinary postgraduate course (‘Lean and Green’) targeting management, economy, physical science and engineering graduates with the objective to shape Energy managers working in the top management of service and manufacturing organizations to effectively achieve higher levels of energy efficiency and renewable energy penetration, while improving the levels of quality, work and service.

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