Supporting energy system modelling in developing countries: Techno-economic energy dataset for open modelling of decarbonization pathways in Colombia

Decarbonization pathways have emerged as a pivotal ele-ment of global climate change mitigation strategies. Energy system modelling is widely recognized as a tool to sup-port the design of informed energy decarbonization poli-cies. However, the development of energy models heavily relies on high-quality input data, which may pose signifi-cant challenges in developing countries where data accessi-bility is limited, incomplete, outdated, or inadequate. More-over, while models may exist in countries, these are not publicly available; therefore, details cannot be retrieved, re-peated, reconstructed, interoperable or auditable (U4RIA *). This paper presents an open techno-economic energy dataset for Colombia that is U4RIA-compliant as it can be used trans-parently to model decarbonization pathways and support en-ergy planning in the country. Despite being country-specific, most of the data is technology-based and thus applicable to other countries. Diverse sources, assumptions, and mod-elling guidelines are described to facilitate the creation of new datasets. The dataset enhances the availability of energy data for policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers, not only in Colombia but also in other developing countries.& COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )