Applying pioneering integrated planning modeling tools, CenergiaLab supports energy and climate policymakers in understanding the synergies and trade-offs of technological innovation pathways towards a low-carbon transition in Brazil, in Latin America and in the world.

CenergiaLab team has developed integrated optimization energy models, especially with the MESSAGE platform since 2003 and, more recently, with TIMES and REMIX-CEM-B. Over time, these top-down integrated assessment models (IAMs) have been upgraded and tailored to better represent the Brazilian, Latin American countries and global regions. These models incorporate over 10,000 energy supply and demand technological options, and evaluate their interactions with economic development, climate change, local air pollution, water footprint, land use change and climate policies.

The IAMs developed in CenergiaLab are integrated with sectoral models to better understand specificities of energy planning from a bottom-up perspective. It also includes softlinks with other tools based on life cycle assessment (LCA), process analysis, econometrics and input-output matrix methods to identify interlinkages between energy planning and other multiple dimensions of sustainability.