Future of Energy Business Course

Future of Energy Business Course is co-organized with Deloitte, to make the energy transition happen!

“Future of Energy Business Course” is intended to bring engineering students the business perspective of the energy transition. The course targets energy-interested 3rd-year bachelor and master students across all faculties from four technical universities (4TU) in the Netherlands: Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, University Twente, and Wageningen University and Research. It is open to PhD candidates as well. Topics include decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, scenario development, and the business perspective around solutions such as hydrogen, power and CCS, and the future of work in a net-zero-context.

This course is co-organized by Deloitte and 4TU.Energy, with the local support from the 4 technical universities. This course is set up as a 6-week business course, incorporating an introduction session, weekly content workshops, weekly project team sessions, and one final festive pitch session to conclude the business course.

From the version starting from November 2024, there will be a co-mentor team to help students reflect on the workshop content and assist project teams in idea acceleration, one mentor from 4TU - academic perspective, the other from Deloitte - industry perspective. The end results are assumed to be a co-created pitch presentation on future energy business accelerator ideas from each student team. The accelerator ideas will be sourced through members of the technical universities and candidate applications; they will be selected by a panel consisting of topic experts from Deloitte and 4TU.Energy.

Introduction session: Introducing the Future of Energy business course and introduction of facilitators and participants

Date and time: 12th Nov- 12:00 – 13:30; Location: Virtual

Workshop 1: Future of Energy scenario development

Date and time: 14^th Nov- 13:00 – 17:00; Location: Deloitte Office Amsterdam (Gustav Mahlerlaan)

Workshop 2: Decarbonizing harder-to-abate sectors

Date and time: 21^th Nov- 13:00 – 17:00; Location: Deloitte Office Rotterdam (Maastoren)

Workshop 3: New energy solutions: Hydrogen, power and CCS

Date and time: 28^th Nov- 13:00 – 17:00; Location: Deloitte Office Utrecht (Papendorp)

Workshop 4: Future of work in a Net Zero context

Date and time: 5^th Dec- 13:00 – 17:00; Location: Deloitte Office Rotterdam (Maastoren)

Workshop 5: Accelerator Pitch Day, including closing drinks

Date and time: 12^th Dec- 13:00 – 19:00; Location: Deloitte Office Amsterdam (Gustav Mahlerlaan)

“I’ve been co-mentoring for Deloitte’s Future of Energy Business course organized by 4TU Centre for Energy and Deloitte. ...I’ve always been curious about how different sectors fit together in the energy transition. What drives decisions? What are the trade-offs? This course gave me so much to think about.
...thank you for making these discussions so engaging and for sharing your stories and insights—it’s been eye-opening. I particularly loved how the course structured such dense and scattered knowledge into clear, meaningful narratives.”

This course is a collaboration between Deloitte and 4TU.Energy, the yearly track has been taking place since 2022.

For program questions, please address to:

Dr. Oscar Kraan (okraan@deloitte.nl), course leader at Deloitte.

For general questions, please address to:

Dr. Sha Lou (s.lou@tue.nl), coordinator 4TU.Energy.

Please keep yourself updated on our website or LinkedIn for the coming track in autumn.

If you are interested in becoming a 4TU co-mentor with Deloitte for the students team, please register here.

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