EMP updates
Latest Events
Latest news from our Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, and Global events.
Please note, applications for all EMPs of 2025 are now closed. Upon opening of applications for 2026, information shall be shared via this webpage.
July 28, 2025
Energy Modelling Platform for Nigeria (EMP-N)
The Energy Modelling Platform – Nigeria (EMP-N) is the first ever country specific EMP held by CCG and partners. Organisati…
June 13, 2025
Energy Modelling Platform for Asia and the Pacific (EMP-APAC) 2025
This is the first ever Energy Modelling Platform for Asia and the Pacific (EMP-APAC) following on from twelve rounds of …
Overview
The Energy Modelling Platforms (EMP) support academics, government analysts, and practitioners from the private sector in gaining practical skills on various energy modelling tools. Training is delivered by international organisation experts or academics from the world’s top universities, and also covers complementary skills such as report writing, delivery of presentations, and effective communication with policymakers.
EMPs are a part of the wider capacity building ecosystem of CCG, supporting long-term capacity building interventions such as the Scholars’ Bootcamp, the Partners’ Bootcamp, the FlatPack Bootcamp, and the D2D Bootcamp. For more information on the various bootcamps, click here.
EMP-A, Ghana, May 2024
EMP-LAC, Brazil, January 2024
EMP-Global, Trieste, July 2023
There are two modes of EMP attendance:
- One-off attendance, meaning that students come and attend a single course with no further commitment.
- Bootcamp attendance, meaning that students may attend one or more courses in the context of a commitment to apply the learning to achieve a particular outcome.
Going forward, most available slots on the EMP will be for Bootcamp participants, and slots for one-time attendance will be limited to participants with other sources of funding.
Interested applicants are therefore encouraged to consider participating as part of a Bootcamp arrangement. This will both increase the chance of selection and provide the benefits of a longer-term engagement with CCG, leading to tangible outcomes for participants and their host countries and institutions
Co-Fund the Energy Modelling Platform
The EMPs, since their inception by the OpTIMUS community (pre-dating CCG), have always been partnership based co-funded events, with some events receiving up to 70% co-funding. Overall, co-funding has enabled EMP to reach at least twice as many participants as would have otherwise been possible.
Co-funders to date have included the World Bank (Energy Sector Management Assistance Program), the International Energy Agency, 2050 Pathways Platform, the Danish Energy Agency, Sustainable Energy for All, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
Co-funders are encouraged to consider funding under Bootcamp initiatives for longer-term impact, but may also fund one-off attendance if this better fits their programme objectives.
For further information on how to support the EMP initiative or the Bootcamps, please contact Rudolf Yeganyan (r.yeganyan1@lboro.ac.uk).
Structure
Before joining the Energy Modelling Platform, whether under a Bootcamp or on a one-off basis, applicants must typically go through a rigorous screening process. As a part of this process, applicants must:
- Complete the Open University (OU) course of the tool in which they would like to be trained at the EMP and obtain a certificate,
- Complete the ‘Modelling, Policy, and Political Economy’ course and obtain a certificate.
The certificates of both courses that the participants complete must be attached as a part of the application. For applications to Bootcamps, additional documentation is needed as part of the application (please see the following page for details)
The actual EMP event is a three week-long training event, composed of one week of online training and two weeks of in-person training. The online training aims to consolidate the skills that the participants have obtained in completing the OU course. Then the in-person training can focus primarily on applying those technical skills to develop a case study comprising a specific policy application of relevance to their country.
To receive the EMP certificate of attendance, participants must successfully complete the case study, produce an associated written report, and make an oral presentation at the course forum. Successful completion of the EMP also qualifies participants to obtain Open University LinkedIn badges at Bronze level where these exist for their respective tools.
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Partners
African Climate Policy Centre – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ACPC-UNECA)
Climate Compatible Growth Programme (#CCG)
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
Green Grid Initiative (GGI)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Energy Agency (IEA)
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Imperial College London (ICL)
Kartoza
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
OpTIMUS Community of Practice
Politecnico Di Milano
Simon Fraser University
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
The Loughborough Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment, and Resilience (STEER)
United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK FCDO)
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
World Resource Institute (WRI)
World Bank Group (WBG)
2050 Pathways Platform