Welcome and introduction

In this course, you will learn how our environmental and energy economic models can be used to answer questions raised by environmental or energy policy.

We will show you how to transfer a question to a model, solve the model, and interpret the results. You will even have the opportunity to develop your own model.

Energy markets are currently facing significant changes and challenges, all around the world. Models can help us to better understand and evaluate those developments.

So stick around if you want to know what our energy future could look like.

Profile pages

You can view the profile pages of your fellow learners, and ‘follow’ them to keep track of their comments. We recommend that you follow the educators Frank Krysiak, Hannes Weigt and Julia von Esebeck. That way, you’ll be able to see all the comments that they make.

Learning online

Courses such as this one attract thousands of learners, which means it is not possible for us to provide individual help in most cases. The big advantage however is that learners can help each other. So if you know the answer to a question being asked, don’t be shy. Post an answer. If you find an answer or comment helpful, please ‘like’ it, so the best answers can be found more easily by others (filter by ‘most liked’).

In some steps we’ll provide additional learning material as external links or downloads. Please have a look at them as well.

Are you new to learning online? Then you might like to read these tips and tools for social learning, to you help you get the most from FutureLearn’s features.