Abstract—Energy integration aims at achieving sustainable self-sufficiency among countries in a geographical region. The challenges of integrating the energy resources of a group of countries are addressed in this paper using a system modeling approach. As a starting point, the model accounts for the energy needs, production, and interactive cooperation between the countries in a region. Different case scenarios are simulated and their results are analyzed. The model shows that countries in a specific region can effectively manage their energy resources to the benefit of all and every country in the considered region.
Index Terms—Energy, regional integration, system modeling, energy integration.
Hosam E. Emara-Shabaik, Gulnur Kalimuldina, and Sarim Al-Zubaidy are with Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan (e-mail: gkalimuldina@nu.edu.kz).
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Cite:Hosam E. Emara-Shabaik, Gulnur Kalimuldina, and Sarim Al-Zubaidy, "Regional Energy Integration – A System Modeling Approach," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 100-104, 2013.
