The Applied Research Programme on Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) was a UK Aid-funded programme aimed at delivering ground-breaking research to address some of the most pressing energy-related challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. One of these critical areas was strategic energy planning and the use of modelling techniques.

This paper provides an overview of the contributions of the Applied Research Programme on Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) to energy modelling in the context of the wider literature and its policy implications.