EMPOCI: Accelerating sustainable energy-mobility transitions
Here's everything you need to know about the EMPOCI project.
What we are doing
The EMPOCI project, led by , explores how to accelerate the low-carbon transition in our interconnected energy and mobility systems.
The project focuses on four countries: the UK, Germany, the USA, and China. It investigates the governance implications of the ways businesses, policymakers, society and academia are accelerating net-zero transitions in those places. In particular, it focusses on how to balance competing climate policy interests and industrial policy concerns.
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Our Objectives
There are three things we want to accomplish by the end of the project.
1. Understanding Co-Evolution of Policy and Innovation. EMPOCI aims to investigate how multi-level policy mixes interact with low-carbon innovations in socio-technical transitions. How do different policy mixes affect innovation? How do novel low-carbon solutions shape policy thinking? And what is the influence of the global interplay in the low-carbon energy-mobility transition?
2. Developing New Tools. We aim to create and apply new methodological tools that can provide broad and deep insights into the main drivers and barriers for accelerating low-carbon transitions. Examples include novel actor mapping and multi-actor acceleration surveys.
3. Co-Designing Practical Strategies: EMPOCI will collaborate with stakeholders to co-design actionable strategies to support fast, deep and just low-carbon energy-mobility transitions in a politically charged context.
Our Research Methods
EMPOCI employs a multi-method research design combining qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the governance of sustainable energy-mobility transitions.
This includes:
- Multi-actor case studies and surveys
- Transformative foresight processes
- Data analytics of policies, agency and innovation dynamics
EMPOCI will analyse the innovation-led decarbonisation of the increasingly interconnected electricity-mobility-ICT sectors in two European countries (UK, Germany), and two countries outside Europe (China, USA).
Engagement & Impact
The EMPOCI team shares its findings through academic and non-academic publications, workshops, and social media.
We regularly present our research at conferences and seminars, and engage with stakeholders through transformative foresight workshops in the UK and Germany.
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Our Publications
Here are some of our recent publications:
- , by Asli Ates, Karoline Rogge, and Katherine Lovell (2024)
- by Karoline Rogge and Nicholas Goedeking (2024)
- by Qi Song, Karoline Rogge and Adrian Ely (2023)
- by Karoline Rogge and Qi Song (2023)
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Our Team
Further Information
EMPOCI collaborates with international experts, including  at Tsinghua University and  at UC Berkeley.
The German case study benefits from with Fraunhofer ISI.
EMPOCI is funded by the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 85273).
