Book description
Low-Carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective draws on the European Commission‘s funded project MILESECURE-2050. It considers low-carbon energy security and energy geopolitics in Europe, with a focus on four thematic clusters: challenging the energy security paradigm; climate change and energy security objectives (the components of a secure and low-carbon energy system); energy security in a geopolitical perspective, as it relates to economics, resource competition, and availability; and the influence of large scale renewable energy projects on energy security and shifting geopolitical alliances.
An overarching narrative is that optimizing the energy system simultaneously across different objectives may be impossible, i.e., lowest cost, least environmental impact, minimal downtime, regional supply. This book explores these charged topics through insights from a series of novel, new energy project case studies, and demonstrates the need for difficult political conversations within Europe and beyond by posing fundamental yet new questions about the energy security paradigm.
- Offers a unique perspective on low-carbon energy security by considering the assumptions behind current energy security needs
- Suggests the benefit of envisioning energy security through out-of-the-box scenario development with respect to the energy system
- Includes energy in an international scenario with case studies from Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Morroco, China, South America, and Europe
- Draws on the European Commission‘s funded project MILESECURE-2050
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Challenging the Energy Security Paradigm
- Chapter 2. European Union Energy Policy Evolutionary Patterns
- Chapter 3. A Study of Russia as Key Natural Gas Supplier to Europe in Terms of Security of Supply and Market Power
- Chapter 4. The Macroregional Geopolitics of Energy Security: Towards a New Energy World Order?
- Chapter 5. Reshaping Equilibria: Renewable Energy Mega-Projects and Energy Security
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Chapter 6. European Distributed Renewable Energy Case Studies
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Anticipatory Experiences: Reflecting How We Envisage the Long-term Ways Renewable Energy Will Compete With Fossil Fuels in a Liberalised Market Environment
- 6.3. The German Experience of the Energiewende
- 6.4. The Italian Experience With Renewable Energy
- 6.5. Costs, Competitiveness and Climate Change Mitigation in European Union Energy Security Policy
- 6.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Energy Security in Low-Carbon Pathways
- Chapter 8. Towards Governance of Energy Security
- Chapter 9. Reducing Uncertainty Through a Systemic Risk-Management Approach
- Chapter 10. Towards a Low-Carbon, Citizens-Driven Europe’s Energy Security Agenda
- Index
Product information
- Title: Low-carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2016
- Publisher(s): Academic Press
- ISBN: 9780128029879
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