Courses 2012
Green Business Opportunities
The one-week course will be held in Summer School Almere, organized by Windesheim Flevoland and Steve Clemens MBA.
Fact: The EU put ambitious sustainability targets in its 20-20-20 program and more beyond.
Fact: The US, UK, South-Korea, India and China have multi-billion economic stimulus plans focused on greening the economy. More nations are expected to follow.
Problem: the green industry was already short of knowledgeable staff…
Opportunity: This course introduces the main green and sustainable business models in today’s real business, future-ready. Wind energy, solar energy, biomass, biofuels, hydro energy, waste-to-energy, tidal energy, wave energy, distributed generation, energy efficiency, energy storage and carbon trading are topics we discover and analyse from a business opportunity point of view. Students should find themselves fit to turn environmental problems into profits and long-term corporate success.
An excursion to a few local green businesses is planned, e.g. a wind farm operator, a carbon trader, a biomass power plant, a builder of passive houses, a bio-ethanol producer, etc.
COURSE DIRECTOR
Mr Steve Clemens, MBA
Steve Clemens is lecturer at the business department of Windesheim Flevoland, The Netherlands, MBA-lecturer at UBI, Brussels, Belgium, and MBA-lecturer at National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He also trains/consults large manufacturing and financial organizations on Clean Production and Environmental Economics, e.g. Adidas contract-manufacturer Pou Yen Saigon, Vietnam, and the European Investment Bank, Luxemburg.
All business and other students with vision on strategic advantage of being green-ready.
The course is designed for professionals and students who are dealing with food, food quality and food safety in their daily work. This can be from the point of view of a governmental position, worker in the food sector or someone who is dealing with distribution of food and will have a close relation with consumers.
- To learn a few basic but relevant concepts from (Environmental) Economics: circular economy, equimarginal principle, Kaya Identity, McKinsey’s abatement work, etc.
- To get an overview of all currently available sources of renewable energy
- Build basic understanding on current and tomorrow’s RE technology
- Solar thermal: residential – industrial use, thermal electricity, solar AC
- Solar PV: industry overview, silicon shortages, falling prices, grid parity
- Wind: offshore – onshore, vertical – horizontal axis, scale issues, Nimby
- Biomass: tie-in with natural forest cycles, thermal polymerisation, bio-methanisation, manure-to-energy, waste-to-energy, agricultural Euro-naissance
- Hydropower: natural habitat issues, wave energy & tidal energy
- Geothermal: applicability model, cases from Iceland and Idaho, US
- Distributed generation, Cogeneration: large scale process heat & self-sufficiency
- Negawatts, energy efficiency, Verbruggen’s funnel
- Transport, green mobility, biofuels, electrification, hydrogen
- Energy Storage
- To get acquainted with and analyse the RE business models that currently work around the world.
- Explore the multitude of carbon trading and hedging opportunities, a.o. through the European Emissions Trading System and via the mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol.
PERIOD
09-07-2012 – 13-07-2012 (1 week)
Certificate of Attendance
» Course Fee: EUR 550 ,- including course materials and excursions
» Accommodation Fee Almere: EUR 120,- per week
MORE INFORMATION
Mr Steve Clemens, MBA
sbd.clemens@windesheimflevoland.nl
Summer School Almere doesn’t offer scholarships for this course.
30 May 2012
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