Study Guide

Objective

You are able to understand, analyse and apply local, national and regional-level policies relevant to energy systems and energy transition at the community level. You know how renewable energy policies are both formulated and applied. You can develop context-specific strategies for building and engaging community support for renewable energy policy and advocacy for the adoption by policy-makers and governance bodies.

Content

The main contents of this course include:

- Energy-related policy analysis, including Technology Readiness Levels of energy technologies; EU taxonomy for sustainable activities; national and regional climate mitigation and adaptation targets; European New Green Deal; Sustainable Development Goals.
- Advocacy and strategy development for building public support for renewable energy policy.
- Alignment of renewable energy models with community-level business models.

Location and time

Partly online-teaching and partly classroom teaching at Wärtsilä-campus. Study visits.

Materials

All the materials are collected on a Moodle-platform.

Teaching methods

In this course we will go through different level policies relevant to energy systems and energy transition at the community level. You will understand how advocacy work on this theme can be made and what kind of movements are there when it comes to energy transition. Learning task is to make a advocacy and movement plan in small groups.

Employer connections

Working life cooperation will be presented as case examples and through study visits.

Student workload

This course is 5 ECTS which corresponds to 135 hours work load for a student.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation criterias will be presented at the beginning of the course.