MSc Sustainable Energy Technology

Current energy systems are primarily based on fossil fuels. The energy transition aims to significantly reduce or even completely stop the use of fossil fuels by implementing a sustainable energy system. This transition requires fundamental changes and innovations affecting the world’s energy landscape.

Securing a sustainable energy future implies an energy transition that will require a new generation of dedicated engineers and researchers capable of developing, optimising, and integrating sustainable energy sources.  This requires innovative new technologies that need to be integrated into new and existing electricity and heat networks, and market structures.

The Master of Science programme Sustainable Energy Technology (MSc  SET) covers the entire sustainable energy system: from generation by for instance solar PV or geothermal heat generation, to conversion, and from transport and storage of energy to consumption. The MSc SET programme has 2 different tracks: one track focussing on electrical energy, and one track on heating and cooling.

System integrators of the energy transition

Engineers in Sustainable Energy Technology have a broad knowledge of the field and act as the system integrators of the energy transition. Their engineering skills include renewable energy generation, distribution systems, and storage. There is a lot of demand for engineers with these skills because governments and industry have ambitious plans for investments in sustainable energy.