Integrated Energy Modeling for Green Governance: A Review

Purpose: Integrated energy modeling is vital to green governance and sustainable energy transitions. Even with global decarbonization agreements, countries are still dealing with siloed data systems, ineffective institutional coordination, and the absence of decision-support systems that can paradoxically connect the energy-economy-environment-society nexus. Methods: This work examines global experiences, scholarly works, and prominent global reports to assess the value and policy relevance of integrated energy modeling systems and their constituent parts, functions, and integrated energy modeling systems. This considers optimization, simulation, and hybrid modeling systems while also concentrating on the degree of financial, network, and social-institutional integration. Results: This shows that energy transition planning needs governance, active participation, and feedback loops to foster a more integrative model of governance that transcends techno-economic parameters and also incorporates uncertainty. Evidence drawn from the EU and large developing countries (India and China) and from cities (Ottawa, the C۴۰) supports the value of key principles that include alignment of the model with policy questions, incorporation of financial and grid subsystems, and phased model-building to cope with data-sparsity. Those enhance the credibility of scenarios, policy buy-in, and the coherence of planning. Conclusion: Integrated energy modeling thus implies a more active, policy-driven planning paradigm.

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Integrated energy modeling ، Green governance ، Energy transition ، Scenario analysis ، Stakeholder participation ، AI-enabled energy planning