The energy balance offers a convenient accounting and modeling framework to measure the implications of alternative-energy development strategies. This section summarizes the basic structure for Thailand's energy model. A detailed listing of equations is attached in the Table A1 and Table A2(Table A1).
The key to projecting the energy balance is to tie its components firmly to underlying economic developments and to spell out the structure of the internal linkages that make up the balance. These relationships are summarized in block form in Figure 3.