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Energy security and the energy transition

Understanding the energy transition in the context of energy system security and resilience.

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Summary

Understanding the energy transition in the context of energy system security and resilience.

Much of the discourse around the ‘energy transition’ has centred on decarbonisation and ‘net zero’. While policies to reduce emissions remain strong and widespread around the world, it has always been the case – and even more so in today’s geopolitical environment – that countries value energy security above all. It has also always been the case that, for many countries, the energy transition has been viewed as a pathway towards greater energy security and not simply an environmental nicety. 

That said, the energy transition comes with its own challenges around energy security, both from a geopolitical and trading perspective and an internal, system resilience and reliability one. 

This course provides attendees with an independent, hype-free and numbers-focused perspective on the full range of energy transition and security issues, including access to resources (such as minerals, land, money and more) and the challenges of balancing greater percentages of ‘weather-dependent’ supply. It integrates such issues with crucial, practical barriers including political and deployment ones, creating a framework within which to better understand how and where new growth markets are likely to emerge. 

Who should attend?

The course is aimed at commercially focused people who need a solid, independent and integrated understanding of the opportunities and risks created for firms by the renewed focus on energy security against a backdrop of energy transition.  

This will include job roles such as business and product development; those responsible for strategy, market analysis and policy; and engineers seeking to better understand the market context of their products. 

How will I benefit?

After the course you will be able to:

  • The company could proactively identify and mitigates emerging energy supply chain, geopolitical, and grid instability risks to avoid disruption. 
  • Provides data-driven insights to evaluate complex energy pathways (hydrogen, grids) for optimal, future-proof investments. 
  • Equips teams to build contingency plans for energy price volatility and physical disruptions, ensuring business continuity and prevents costly mistakes 
Contributes 14 CPD hours

Key topics

  • The energy transition and its features, from global scale to country variations 
  • Resource requirements, constraints and supply chain bottlenecks 
  • The new geopolitical realities of energy transition pathways 
  • The impacts of transport and heat electrification on the power system 
  • Available and emerging solutions to balance a grid with ‘variable’ supply 
  • Integrating alternative, ‘clean’ fuels into increasingly electrified energy systems 
  • ‘The Internet of Energy’ and how it will coexist with traditional, centralised approaches 
  • How security-focused approaches to the energy transition are creating new market solution opportunities 

Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies: E, B and A

  1. Professional commitment - For Incorporated and Chartered Engineers: ‘Demonstrate a personal commitment to professional standards, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment’
  2. Design and development of processes, systems, services and products - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to the analysis and solution of mechanical engineering problems’ For Incorporated Engineers ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to design, develop, manufacture, construct commission, operate, maintain, decommission and re-cycle mechanical engineering processes, systems, services and products’
  3. Knowledge and understanding - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist engineering knowledge and understanding to optimize the application of existing and emerging technology’ For Incorporated Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist mechanical engineering knowledge and understanding to apply existing and emerging technology’

Meet our trainers

These trainers regularly teach Energy security and the energy transition .

  • John Massey

    John Massey

    Dr John Massey is an internationally renowned energy communicator and business educator, focused on the interconnected decarbonisation topics of renewable power, energy storage, CCUS and hydrogen.

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  • Duration:
    2 days
  • Location:
    London
  • CPD Hours:
    14
  • UK-Spec:
    E, B, A

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20-21 May 2026 10% discount available until 20 March
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7-8 Oct 2026 10% discount available until 7 August

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