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Masters in Energy
EPFL offers three Master programmes in Energy. In addition, optional energy-related lectures are offered by various sections of the school.
Doctoral courses
Find courses from doctoral programs related to energy :
Executive courses
CEN designs and organizes tailored executive training programs in energy. In addition, EPFL also offers advanced programs of relevance to the energy sector.
Executive Education Program in Energy
The Executive Education Program in Energy at EPFL equips senior leaders, policymakers, and innovators across the energy sector with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the global shift toward a decentralized, low-carbon energy system. Covering the technical, regulatory, economic, and social dimensions of the energy transition, the program helps participants assess risks, seize business opportunities, and deploy best practices in areas like smart grids, renewable generation, energy storage, and public acceptance. Tailored to your organization’s needs, this program combines theory with real-world insights from EPFL’s cutting-edge research to support strategic decision-making and accelerate sustainable transformation.
Innovative Governance of Large Urban Systems
The Chair MIR offers a comprehensive approach to improving the governance of large urban systems in innovative ways. The course targerts city managers, managers of urban infrastructure systems, public managers in charge of contracts with private operators, urban planners, managers of contracting firms, and other interested persons (e.g., consultants).
Energy geostructures: analysis and design
The application of environmentally friendly technologies that exploit renewable energy sources is key to follow international agreements for the development of low-carbon buildings and infrastructures. Energy geostructures are an innovative, multifunctional technology that can be used to address the aforementioned challenge. By coupling the role of the ground structures with that of the geothermal heat exchangers, energy geostructures can serve as structural supports as well as heating and cooling elements for buildings and infrastructures.
Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering: Industry Decarbonisation – CAS
This course is geared toward industry and energy professionals with technical backgrounds, and aims to equip them with tools and methods to reduce CO₂ emissions in industrial processes through energy audits, process integration, renewable energy, carbon capture, and systemic design of sustainable energy systems. The course responds to the urgent need for industrial transformation, as companies face complex decarbonization challenges and long investment cycles, creating a rising demand for professionals capable of driving this transition in a comprehensive and effective way.
Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering: Integrated Approach to Energy Transition – CAS
This 5-month CAS program (Oct 2025 – Mar 2026) combines online and in-person learning in Sion, Switzerland. It is designed for professionals, decision-makers, engineers, planners, financiers, who want to develop multidisciplinary expertise to guide the shift to sustainable energy: participants learn to assess systems holistically (technical, economic, social, environmental), model energy transition pathways, perform life cycle assessments, evaluate social acceptance and policy tools, and design strategies balancing competing constraints. The course addresses the growing need for specialists who can handle the complexity of transforming energy systems in a sustainable, integrated way across sectors and scales.
Massive Open Online Courses — MOOCs
Find EPFL’s digital lectures addressing the topic of energy:
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The videos address the topics of the final energies and their units, the final energies demand, the electricity offer, the electricity imports, and fuel imports.