About CEED

The Yale Clean and Equitable Energy Development certificate program (CEED) is a 100% online certificate program that provides you with the knowledge, frameworks, and skills needed to address challenges and advance an equitable clean energy transition by promoting policies and designing bankable energy projects that produce meaningful community benefits. 

Systems-thinking and the ability to critically evaluate policy, research, and energy development projects are foundational to the CEED program. These critical thinking skills are then coupled with highly sought practical knowledge on how clean energy projects are built.  Participants will design or redesign a clean energy project pitch deck so they can immediately impact the transition to a clean, affordable, and equitable energy future.

Taught by a combination of Yale faculty and experts in the field, with the CEED program you will learn:

• foundational concepts of energy,
• foundational concepts of finance,
• foundational theory and practice of environmental and climate justice,​
• diverse approaches to energy justice, and​
• the nuts and bolts of clean energy project development.

After completing this program, you will be able to design and evaluate clean energy projects, promote policies that accelerate the just energy transition, and advocate on behalf of vulnerable communities that could be or are already affected by energy crisis and inequality.

Check out the Curriculum page to download the Course Themes and Objectives, a week-by-week curriculum breakdown of the entire program.

• Do you have a clean energy project idea you would like to develop and want to know where to start?
• Are you a working professional looking for opportunities to change energy systems and lead the just energy transition?
• Are you an advocate and community leader motivated by creating job opportunities and promoting equitable energy systems?
• Are you a policymaker that wants to lead the just energy transition at the local, state, and federal levels through sound policy?
• Are you looking to understand the role of energy justice and clean energy development within your organization in order to do something for the planet and your community in a time frame that matters?
• Have you completed the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy (FDCE) program and want to know more about opportunities to collaborate, invest, and promote policies, initiatives, and projects related to the clean energy sector and achieve the just energy transition?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, CEED is for you.

Please check out the Apply page to learn more about the application process.

Check out the Tuition, Payments & Discounts page for more information about this year's tuition rates, discounts offered, and payment deadlines. 

Check out the Important Dates & Events page for the program calendar, including application timeline, payment deadlines, and course dates.