ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Phys.
Sec. Social Physics
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1652953
This article is part of the Research TopicFinance and Production Complex SystemsView all 23 articles
Benefit Analysis of Regional Energy Interconnection using System Dynamics Method Targeting Carbon Neutrality
Provisionally accepted
- 1Beijing Union University, Beijing, China
- 2Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization, Beijing, China
- 3State Grid Economic and Technological Research Institute Co Ltd, Beijing, China
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The construction of the global energy internet is a significant way to develop clean energy and the key to achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. This study aims to the feasibility of trans-national and trans-continental development of energy interconnection. The contribution is to present an utterly systematic model and method for evaluating the comprehensive benefits of energy interconnection and to analyze the comprehensive benefits of energy interconnection development from multiple dimensions in economics, society, resources, and links. The trend of regional power grid interconnection is accelerating, and the influence of energy interconnection on global economic and social development is increasing. The prior literature is absent on technical issues such as energy transmission, storage, sharing, and system issues such as power trading, overall architecture, and data collection. This paper takes the economic and clean energy development system in Southeast Asia as an example to make the system simulation, designs scenarios of quick, steady and slow carbon peaking & neutrality, and evaluates the comprehensive benefits under the three economic development modes using the evaluation model. The result presented that the development of energy interconnection has an apparent positive effect on economic growth, eliminating the people lacking electricity, poverty, and other social problems, improving resource utilization efficiency, and the ecological environment. The benefits evaluation method to solve the energy interconnection using System Dynamics and Analytic Hierarchy Process proposed in this paper is practical and feasible.
Keywords: regional energy interconnection, carbon neutrality, Comprehensive benefits, system dynamics, Scenario analysis
Received: 24 Jun 2025; Accepted: 11 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Ming Lv, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China
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