All ECI Projects

This four-year, impact-oriented project will investigate how leaders across politics, business, and sport can play a vital role in driving climate action.

The Pathways to Flexibility project explores how households can play a more active role in the UK’s transition to a low-carbon energy system. By examining how everyday routines, technologies and behaviours shape energy use, it identifies practical ways to support more flexible demand.

The Regional Energy Planning and Heat project explores how Regional Energy Strategic Plans (RESPs) are shaping the transition to low-carbon heat across Great Britain. Focusing on how planning is organised, governed and delivered in practice, it examines how different actors, capabilities and forms of knowledge influence outcomes.

EDOL collects and shares high resolution energy-related data from 2000 representative households. A smaller number of households will take part in experiments with new technologies, business models and policy interventions.

The PRISMA project aims to advance integrated assessment models by focusing on distributional justice and efficiency, innovation and finance, climate impacts and land-use, and lifestyle change and circularity.

The CircEUlar project explores the dynamics and levers for societal transformation towards a net-zero emission circular economy.

iDODDLE is investigating if the digitalisation of our daily lives helps or hinders efforts to tackle climate change.

ELEVATE explores the potential of existing and new forms of e-micromobility, identifying the people, places and circumstances where they will be most useful in order to reduce mobility-related energy demand and carbon emissions.

Clean Heat Streets (CHS) aims to install 150 heat pumps into the Rose Hill area of Oxford over a two year period, do so inclusively, fairly and without causing problems on the electricity distribution network.

GoZero aims to provide a robust evidence base to support the multi-level governance of SME decarbonisation across the four UK nations.

The energy and mobility theme of UKERC Phase 4 projects focuses on where transport decarbonisation efforts are generating acute technological and governance challenges for the energy system, especially at the local level.

By tackling existing weaknesses and lack of capabilities in the current generation of integrated assessment models, the NAVIGATE project provides new insights into how long-term climate goals can translate into short-term policy action.

CREDS is a multi-institution research centre looking at how reductions in energy use can support the transition to a net-zero society, and move to an energy system that is secure, affordable and sustainable.

Energy Superhub Oxford (ESO) aims to eliminate 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year – the equivalent of taking 2,000 cars off the road.

DeViz uses thermal imaging as a behaviour change tool to inform, empower, and engage site supervisors to help them achieve zero defects in their buildings.

Project LEO was an ambitious, wide-ranging and innovative energy trial, seeking to accelerate the UK’s transition to a zero-carbon energy system.

Researchers from six European countries worked with clean energy communities to explore how they engage citizens, create value and share learning.

Our analysis outlines three distinct pathways to eradicating emissions from the Oxfordshire economy.

This programme created a framework for understanding technical, market and policy requirements for integrating renewables across a wide range of scales, resource types and contexts. 

M-Benefits created a method for companies to include the multiple benefits of energy efficiency in their investment assessment and decision-making.