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Skills, education and training

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24/9/2025 Feature / Promise Chukwukadibia Nwogu

An internship model to close Africa’s green skills gap

As the world races towards net zero, Africa’s transition must not only be rapid but just. With the right approach, young Africans will drive this just transition for themselves. An example of that is a new internship model, piloted in 2025, whose low-cost design, adaptability to different geographies and partial cost-recovery mechanism through employer reimbursements make it a candidate for replication across Africa, writes founder Promise Chukwukadibia Nwogu.

Energy efficiency / management

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26/6/2024 Feature / Selwyn Parker

Developing the new custodians of energy management

As pressure mounts on the commercial world to show its climate responsibilities, the time has come for the professional energy manager, reports Selwyn Parker.

Young professionals

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7/1/2026 Feature / Will Dalrymple

Dinner dances then and now: a history of Energy Institute communities in the UK energy city

Aberdeen, the UK’s energy city, was the home of the first Energy Institute Young Professional Network (EI YPN) and continues to house an EI community. Past chairs looking back over five decades of gathering together energy professionals told their stories to New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple MEI.

Skills, education and training

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17/8/2022 Feature / Christine Currie

Creating the all-energy workforce for a sustainable North Sea future

Our transition to a net zero offshore energy industry is underway and accelerating and it’s very clear that future energy system will look very different to what’s gone before, explains Christine Currie, Head of Skills Policy for OPITO.

Wind

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6/7/2022 Feature / Beate Hildenbrand

Onshore and offshore wind H&S remains strong as working hours increase

According to the 2021 annual incident data reports published by SafetyOn and G+, two organisations run in partnership with the Energy Institute (EI), the number of health and safety (H&S) incidents in onshore and offshore wind remains low, despite the rapid growth in the wind energy sector. Beate Hildenbrand, EI Manager of Off/Onshore Wind, reports.

Diversity

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12/2/2025 Feature / Sara Siddeeq

Female leadership: What it takes to crack the glass ceiling in the energy sector

As the global transition to clean energy accelerates, the need for diverse perspectives has never been more urgent. However, despite women constituting 39% of the global workforce, according to the International Energy Agency they account for only 16% of the traditional energy workforce. At management level, this figure is even lower. Addressing this disparity is essential not just for equity but for fostering innovation and resilience in the energy industry. Sara Siddeeq interviewed three accomplished women in the energy sector.

Diversity

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13/3/2024 Feature / Nick Cottam

People power for a still-transitioning sector

People are the fuel to power a transitioning energy sector and diversity will produce the blend needed to accelerate this change. This was the theme of a few sessions at International Energy Week 2024, reports Nick Cottam.

Skills, education and training

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20/9/2023 Comment / Chinyere Bibian Odogwu

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Chinyere Bibian Odogwu AMEI

In our latest Spotlight on Energy People interview with Energy Institute (EI) members, we learn about the career and experience of Chinyere Bibian Odogwu AMEI, currently working at the Energy Transition Xccelerator in X-Academy, Aberdeen.

International Energy Awards

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5/2/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

Where are they now? Former International Energy Awards winners look back

Awards schemes like the upcoming Energy Institute (EI) International Energy Awards only capture a moment in time. But in reality life never stops. To find out the sort of things that might happen next for this year’s winners, two energy leaders of today look back on their 2015 awards in the Young Professional Category. They spoke to New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple.

Health and safety

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23/4/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

The right way, and the wrong way, to deal with near misses

If industrial accidents were a scientific experiment, near misses would be the control case. They can offer useful insights, but also impose challenges of their own. New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple speaks with four health and safety experts to provide a guide to near misses, as interpreted by the Tripod Lite accident investigation methodology.

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An internship model to close Africa’s green skills gap

Developing the new custodians of energy management

Dinner dances then and now: a history of Energy Institute communities in the UK energy city

Creating the all-energy workforce for a sustainable North Sea future

Onshore and offshore wind H&S remains strong as working hours increase

Female leadership: What it takes to crack the glass ceiling in the energy sector

People power for a still-transitioning sector

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Chinyere Bibian Odogwu AMEI

Where are they now? Former International Energy Awards winners look back

The right way, and the wrong way, to deal with near misses