About
The New Energy Business School (NEBS) stands on more than two decades leading authority and proven impact in executive energy education. Formerly known as the Energy Delta Institute (EDI). The school has educated thousands of senior professionals, executives, policymakers, and decision-makers who shape today’s global energy system.
Founded to bridge rigorous academic insight with real-world energy practice, EDI quickly established itself as a trusted partner to the energy industry. This legacy now lives on in NEBS, expanded in scope, sharpened in ambition, and fully aligned with the realities of latest insights in the energy transition.
Today, NEBS combines this strong foundation with a future-oriented mission: developing leaders who can navigate complexity, uncertainty, and systemic change. Through a portfolio of executive masterclasses, advanced courses, business series, Executive MBA programmes, and tailor-made in-company education, NEBS delivers learning at the highest strategic level, grounded in economics, geopolitics, technology, regulation, and finance.
What distinguishes NEBS is its unique integration of academic excellence and industry relevance. Programmes are designed and delivered by leading scholars and senior practitioners, ensuring intellectual depth while maintaining direct applicability to boardroom-level decision-making. Participants do not simply acquire knowledge, they develop strategic judgment, critical thinking, and leadership capacity required to drive transformation across the energy value chain.
With an international alumni network and deep roots in Europe’s energy heartland (see the image below), the New Energy Business School continues the EDI tradition of excellence, while redefining it for a world in transition. From legacy energy systems to new energy realities, NEBS educates the leaders who shape what comes next.
NEBS, more than 20 years leading authority in executive energy education
The mission of our business school is to bring together world-class energy knowledge and business expertise to educate and inspire energy professionals to become the leaders of a sustainable energy future.
The energy sector is confronted with tremendous challenges and rapid changes. To stay competitive and lead the way to a climate neutral economy, the sector needs to attract the best and most motivated people. This requires substantial investment in knowledge and human resources.
This is where the New Energy Business School has a key role to play. As one of the world’s few specialised energy business schools, we offer world-class energy knowledge, academic excellence and business expertise to help energy professionals expand their knowledge and horizons on a lifelong basis.
Together with our partners, we have developed a wide range of regular and customised programmes using various learning approaches (classroom, site visits, E-learning, blended learning) to create inspiring and practical learning experiences
New Energy Business School was set up in 2002 by Gasunie (which has since split up into two companies, Gasunie and GasTerra), Gazprom and the University of Groningen, later joined by Shell as new partner and Enagás as associated partner.
With our roots in the natural gas industry, we have a deep understanding of the gas value chain as well as of the practical challenges involved in the energy transition away from fossil fuels to CO2-free forms of energy.
Over the past decades we have trained over 10,000 professionals from about forty different countries. Together they form a lively alumni community that continues to connect and exchange across continents.
In 2017 New Energy Business School joined forces with Energy Valley, a business development organisation for the energy transition in the Northern Netherlands, and Energy Academy Europe, an institute for interdisciplinary energy education, to form New Energy Coalition.
The aim of New Energy Coalition is to bring together researchers, entrepreneurs and policymakers to boost innovation, achieve breakthroughs in technology and knowledge and help change people’s mindset and behaviour with regard to the energy transition.