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COPPE-MSB (Koberle et al., 2015; Portugal-Pereira et al. 2016; Rochedo et al. 2015) is a development and expansion of the MESSAGE-Brazil model developed by the Cenergia lab at COPPE/UFRJ (Borba et al., 2012; de Lucena et al., 2009; Herreras-Martínez et al., 2015; Lucena et al., 2015; Nogueira et al., 2014). MESSAGE  is a mixed integer, perfect foresight optimisation model platform, designed to evaluate different strategies of energy supply development to meet a given demand, which can be exogenous or endogenous. It is included in the category of integrated assessment models (IAMs) that combine techno-economic and environmental variables to generate cost-optimal solutions, which minimize the total cost of expanding the energy system to meet projected energy service demands, subject to constraints that represent real-world restrictions to the full range of the variables in question.