The GWU Clean Energy Resilience Certificate Program

The GWU Clean Energy Resilience Certificate Program

Seven online, self-paced, short courses for busy professionals

  • Choose the ones you need
  • Earn certificates from George Washington University
  • Taught by world class instructors
  • Raise your career trajectory

Learn About the Courses and Register

The GWU Clean Energy Resilience Certificate (CERC) Program teaches you the resilience principles consequential to the transition to a clean energy economy. You will become a key resource for colleagues, customers, and your organization.

Earn certificates for completing individual courses, a Clean Energy Resilience Certificate for completing any four of the seven courses, and an Advanced Clean Energy Resilience Certificate for completing all seven.

Enterprise Resilience

Learn how organizations can adapt to rapidly changing economic, social, and environmental pressures.

How Electricity Markets Work

Learn how Energy tariffs and federal and state energy policies control electricity distribution and prices in the green transition.

Decarbonizing Building

Learn whole systems policies and technologies for building energy savings and lower emissions.

Corporate Strategies to Thrive in a Decarbonized World

Teaches new methods to reduce energy use and carbon footprints while enhancing business operations.

On the Road to Mass Market Electric Vehicles

Learn about EV market evolution, technology advances, and grid modernization roles.

Development and Financing of Renewable Projects

Teaches how to plan, implement, and integrate renewable energy projects.

Energy Resiliency, Smart Communities

Learn to address aging infrastructure and climate change through policy, leadership, and disruptive technologies.


Learn Ways to Make a Difference

Each course consists of 10-to-12 hours of tutorial videos plus live enrichment webinars and instructor Q&A sessions.


Words From our Students

"The course gave me better knowledge to perform a technical, business, and policy analysis for Electric Vehicleadoption."

Andrew Newen, US Department of Energy

"This course has provided me with knowledge, resources, and examples which I can use to communicate and emphasize the importance and inherent need for resilience."

Stephanie Keller, IEEE Member

"The Enterprise Resilience short course is an excellent introduction to powerful techniques of systems thinking and dynamics that are being used to assist complex businesses and government."

Doug Sharp, former EPA Emergency Management Official

Offered by the George Washington University’s

Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI)

GWU chartered EEMI in 2015 to conduct multidisciplinary research and education, disseminate knowledge, and build international partnerships that address profound national and international environmental, energy, and sustainability challenges. EEMI is helping to guide the global transition toward a sustainable, clean energy economy and a more secure and equitable future.