ESEGH study guide
ESEGH · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
ESEGH is a professional certification exam in energy systems and greenhouse gas management. It is aimed at engineers, analysts, sustainability officers, and policy staff who need working knowledge across the whole energy-to-emissions chain rather than deep specialism in one technology. The ESEGH study guide has 7 sections and about 3,164 words.
01Energy Systems and Grid Integration
This domain tests whether you can treat a power system as a physical machine: matching generation to load second by second, procuring capacity years ahead, and absorbing inverter-based resources that behave nothing like synchronous generators. Questions usually pair a definition with a quantitative step, so the arithmetic and the underlying concept both have to be right.
479 words, about 2 min02Renewable Energy Technologies
This domain tests conversion physics, resource assessment and performance rating for solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass and heat pumps. Most questions ask you to take a rated value, apply the real-world derates and produce a defensible energy estimate.
469 words, about 2 min03Energy Efficiency and Demand Management
This domain tests whether you can quantify savings honestly and design demand-side programmes that deliver them. The recurring theme is the difference between instantaneous power reduction and annual energy, and the discipline of baseline adjustment.
454 words, about 2 min04Environmental Impact and Sustainability
This domain tests impact assessment process and life-cycle thinking together. You are expected to know how significance is decided, how boundaries are drawn, and how to convert a life-cycle inventory into a per-kilowatt-hour carbon intensity that can fairly be compared across technologies.
422 words, about 2 min05Energy Policy, Regulation, and Economics
This domain tests the instruments that move capital into energy assets and the cost arithmetic used to judge them. Expect support-scheme mechanics, LCOE and cost-of-capital calculations, and questions on rate design and network regulation.
470 words, about 2 min06GHG Accounting and Emissions Measurement
This domain tests whether you can build a defensible inventory: choose the right boundary, apply the right factors, state the GWP set, and report scope 2 both ways. Most errors are boundary errors or unit errors rather than arithmetic errors.
436 words, about 2 min07Climate Risk, Adaptation, and Resilience
This domain tests how you translate climate projections into asset-level risk and then into engineering or investment decisions. The exam favours questions that combine a hazard with an exposure calculation and a judgement about non-stationarity.
434 words, about 2 min