While NESCAUM’s framework indicates there is a desire on the part of decision-makers engaged in strategic energy planning to use an integrated platform of models that is better able to capture bothmarket and non-market effects,the authors of the NESCAUM study recommend that the second phase of analysis employ CMAQ to conduct photochemical modeling (in combination with BenMAP) There is a need for the integration of climate, energy, and air quality planning.