Government decision-making requires robust knowledge of all costs and impacts to ensure that net zero goals can be met while overcoming otherwise unforeseen negative consequences of the energy transition. As such, the last theme of ETAPA research strives to integrated energy systems and policy research to best support science-based policies for sustainability. For example, climate policies and impacts play a large role in the advancement of technology. On the one hand, a lack of understanding of environmental outcomes directly affects market entry through diffusion. On the other hand, developing enabling policies can enhance the diffusion of more sustainable technologies and improve decision-making related to current operations. Decision-support requires an understanding of the implications of present and future energy systems. As such, energy systems models can play a key role in examining potential outcomes of decisions. For this research theme, ETAPA research focuses on the identification and assessment of technology-policy outcomes, which often relies upon energy systems models and the interpretation of results under different scenarios.

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