CEP Continuing Professional Development - Carbon and Energy Professionals

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Overview

CEP provides competence certification within a framework that encompasses general competence across energy, carbon and sustainability, as well as specialist, expert-level endorsements in a range of associated disciplines.

Holders of CEP certifications commit to maintaining the currency of their skills and knowledge, which includes a commitment to participation CEP’s CPD scheme. This provides reassurance to the market that a CEP certification is a mark of quality and that holders are professional, knowledgeable and capable.

CPD principles

Continuing professional development underpins professionalism and is essential to maintaining competence.

The onus is on the certificate holder to meet or exceed their CPD requirements and to demonstrate progress and achievements. Certification by CEP includes direct accountability for ongoing professional development and is a condition of maintaining certification.

There is no upper limit to CPD, and certification holders are encouraged to be proactive and forward-looking in their approach to developing their competence.

Basic CPD structure requirements

To maintain currency, for each credential you must have:

A total of 120 relevant CPD points over a rolling three-year period; and
A minimum of 20 relevant CPD points in each year.

Individuals holding multiple CEP certifications or endorsements must maintain a CPD record for each certification and endorsement.

CPD points allocation

Qualifying CPD activities carry a specific number of points or use conversion factors to translate time-based activities into points.

Activities cannot be double counted across CPD categories. For example, preparing course materials cannot be counted as both Authorship (Category F) and Course preparation and delivery (Category G).

A single CPD activity may be applied to all relevant certifications. For example, an 8-point conference attendance may be applied to both CPE and CPC certifications, provided the content is relevant to each.

CPD Category

Definition

Expectations

Points

Annual Maximum Claimable Points

Attendance on formal courses (in person or online)

Courses delivered in person or online to a constrained number of participating students, max 20.

Course to be relevant to the certification.

1 point per hour

Mentored skills development

Time spent under the direct tuition or shadowing of a senior, experienced practitioner.

Mentoring to be relevant to the certification.

1 point per hour

Conference and webinar attendance

Attendance at larger event (more than 20 participants) either in person or online.

Claims should relate only to relevant sessions, e.g. an 8 hour conference with 2 hours of relevant material warrants a claim of 2 hours.

1 point per relevant hour

Conference or webinar presentation

Delivery of educational or informational material to an audience of more than 20.

Presentation topic to be relevant to certification held or UN SDGs 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 (Preparation time does not qualify).

2 points per delivery hour for first delivery (0 points for repeat deliveries)

Private study and professional and technical reading

Reading of technical, scientific, engineering or professional practice articles with an educational purpose.

Appropriate articles would include those in peer reviewed journals or published in respected, technical sources.

0.5 points per hour

Authorship

Authorship of relevant, technical material delivered in printed form, e.g. journal articles.

Articles to be published in a peer reviewed or other, respected organisation (Joint authorship is acceptable).

0.5 points per preparation hour

Course preparation and delivery

Delivery of educational or informational material to participating students in groups of up to 20.

Course must be relevant to certification held.

2 points per delivery hour for first delivery (1 point per delivery hour for subsequent deliveries)

Recognised CEP mentoring

Mentoring of a CEP Emerging Professional.

Mentoring time is expected to develop technical or professional practice skill sets of the mentee.

1 point per hour

Recording CPD activity

CPD points are recorded online through the CEP website.

All certification holders will have a CEP user account and are expected to maintain a record for each certification through the My CPD dashboard when you login to your CEP account.

Download:

CEP’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Manual (Version: June 2025)

Failure to satisfy CPD requirements will result in the revocation of certifications or endorsements after due process.

Please note: Terms and conditions are subject to change by CEP, please be familiar with the latest version.