Energy accounts for around 40 percent of Aotearoa’s gross emissions. Continuing to innovate and drive change in the sector is crucial to meeting our emission reduction targets and ensuring a sustainable and resilient sector.
Generating for generations – futureproofing the electricity grid
Matt Philip writes about our national energy grid – anticipating future needs, increasing energy efficiency, and working towards a more efficient and sustainable grid.
Read our EG article Generating for generations – futureproofing the electricity grid
Energy Storage: Overview of Battery Technologies
The Electrical Engineering Group and Cain Chapman, Regional Manager of EnerSys Energy Solutions present an informative overview of battery types and technologies currently available on the market.
Watch the Electrical Engineering Group’s webinar on Energy Storage: Overview of Battery Technologies
Solar Photovoltaic Design
The Electrical Engineering Group and committee member Darren Baxter present 'Solar Photovoltaic Design – The science and electrical engineering aspects, good practice and pitfalls'.
Watch the Electrical Engineering Group’s webinar on Solar Photovoltaic Design
Online courses
There are an extensive range of existing online courses on energy and climate change, free to audit or range from $49 to receive a certificate of completion.
Sustainability: Energy Transition
This three-week course helps you identify how energy plays a substantial role in our ability to secure a sustainable future. Experts at the University of Canterbury College of Engineering cover topic such as: why energy transition matters; limitations of growth; the unsustainability of oil supply; energy in our daily lives; renewable energies; and energy return vs energy invested.
Join the University of Canterbury’s course on Sustainability: Energy Transition
Exploring Renewable Energy Schemes
This course focuses on off-grid, stand-alone systems – exploring the key components of photovoltaic, wind, and hydroelectric systems. You will apply what you’re learning by: conducting an energy audit to analyse power consumption; identifying essential system components of small-scale systems; building a budget for a small-scale system design; and creating a design for implementing a small-scale system.
Join the University of Pennsylvania’s course on Exploring Renewable Energy Schemes
Our Energy Future
This course is designed to introduce students to the issues of energy in the 21st century and discusses energy production and utilisation from the biology, engineering, economics, climate science, and social science perspectives.
