Energy system modeling and integrated assessment approaches are essential tools for understanding and optimizing the complex interactions within modern energy systems. By simulating these interactions, stakeholders can make informed decisions that improve energy security, support economic viability, social prosperity, and minimise environmental impact.
This session will explore the role of energy system modelling and integrated assessment in advancing sustainable energy transitions, with a particular focus on the impacts of system retrofitting and the integration of renewable sources such as solar, hydrogen, wind, hydroelectric power, and geothermal energy. We will examine hydrogen's growing importance in achieving net-zero emissions, exploring its potential in energy storage, transportation, and industrial applications, as well as its integration with other renewable sources, small-scale energy generation technologies, and advanced grid management systems. In addition, the session will address the social and environmental effects, trade-offs, and co-benefits of renewable energy systems, particularly their impact on communities, job creation, land use and related ecological consequences. Thereby, look at strategies for sustainable planning and management that enhance the environmental and social co-benefits of the renewable energy transition, such as improving community resilience and job creation, as well as ecosystem service enhancement and the mitigation of land use conflicts.
This session aims to bring together researchers from diverse fields, who will discuss how these models and tools can improve decision-making, enable informed policy development, promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and advance broader sustainability goals.