A Transnational Challenge – Energy Security

Transnational challenges have added a level of complexity to international and national security as the geopolitical landscape adjusts and responds. Such challenges transcend individual borders to involve other nation-states regardless of whether they are willing or unwilling actors. One such transnational challenge is energy security and the resilience of the energy supply system. While energy is generally considered as a national issue associated with meeting the internal needs of a civil society, it is also part of a wider dynamic global system that is vulnerable to a number of factors and is a major influence in framing foreign policy stances. This paper addresses the linkage between energy security and foreign policy at both the state and international levels. It does this by examining some of the issues and challenges associated with energy as a transnational security issue and the ways it affects relations between nation-states. The focus of this paper is on petroleum-based fuel and gas, and on the security and resilience of the energy supply system. Given the ongoing dependence on these traditional forms of energy, it is argued that these energy systems need to be resilient so that, in turn, civil society is resilient and human security is enhanced. The paper explores some of the issues for the European Union (EU) including the resilience of its associated energy systems. The paper also considers issues that enhance or inhibit the resilience of the energy system with particular reference to the EU.

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Coal energy systems of the future – innovative way of Ukraine’s energy development

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/201910900126 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 109 ◽

pp. 00126

Author(s):

Mykola Zhykaliak ◽

Viacheslav Lukinov

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Energy Supply ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Energy Development ◽

Supply System ◽

Future Generations ◽

Energy Strategy ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Energy Supply System

The state of implementation of the main indicators of the energy strategy of Ukraine for the period until 2035 has been analyzed and innovative prospects for the sustainable development of the national fuel and energy complex for the long term have been substantiated, taking into account the structurally unified nationwide energy supply system and the interests of future generations and the environment.

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Modeling of a Prosumer in Optimal Design Energy Systems Problem

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/201910202001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 102 ◽

pp. 02001

Author(s):

Evgeny Barakhtenko ◽

Dmitry Sokolov ◽

Veronica Tashlykova

Keyword(s):

Optimal Design ◽

Energy Supply ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Energy System ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Supply System ◽

Energy Supply System ◽

District Energy ◽

Integrated Energy Systems ◽

Equipment Configuration

The conversion of existing energy systems to intelligent integrated energy systems can happen only if economic benefits due to introduction of the intelligent integrated energy systems will exceed required level of investments. Thus, it is necessary for every optimal design energy systems problem according to the purposes of the study to determine various aspects of equipment configuration, investment and a proposed unit commitment on a case-by-case basis. The studies, taking under consideration energy efficiency of renewable energy units, are particularly important as environmental safety standards are increasing. In the paper optimal design of prosumer energy supply system problem in the intelligent integrated energy system was investigated. For this purpose a super structure for an energy supply system includes different generating capacities with relevant power range. The superstructure for prosumer energy supply system consists of an electric boiler, a gas-fired boiler, a solar photo-voltaic, a solar heating system and a gas-fired CHP. An ability of district energy system to receive the excess generating energy is restricted by the constraints. The heat and electricity tariffs and the received to district energy supply system energy constraints are varying according to time period. As a result of this study, cost-effectiveness analysis of chosen equipment configuration was undertaken.

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A Coordinated Energy Supply for China

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.71-78.2543 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 71-78 ◽

pp. 2543-2546

Author(s):

Lei Zhang ◽

Yuan Xi Huang ◽

Bo Yang ◽

Jiang Su Li ◽

Xiao Ling Cheng

Keyword(s):

Energy Security ◽

Energy Supply ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Mineral Resources ◽

Supply System ◽

Uneven Distribution ◽

Energy Supply System ◽

National Energy Security ◽

Nuclear Crisis

This study releases a fact that the national energy supply system could extend its spatial bordering as the demands for the fuels, especially oil and gas, increased and the structure of energy supply diversified. It is, therefore, that a coordinated energy supply would be a key issue for national energy security, not only because an uneven distribution of mineral resources of both a country and the whole world but also the changeable environments for national energy supply itself. The case study of Chinese snowstorm in 2008 just proved it, and to say nothing of the recent Japan's nuclear crisis.

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US Middle East policy in the context of the global oil supply system in the late 1950s – 1960s.

American History & Politics Scientific edition ◽

10.17721/2521-1706.2018.06.60-72 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 60-72

Author(s):

Vadym Danylets

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Middle East ◽

Energy Supply ◽

Status Quo ◽

Supply System ◽

Global Energy ◽

Energy Supply System ◽

The Us ◽

The Status ◽

Global Energy Supply

The article attempts to analyze the American strategy for maintaining the status quo in the global energy supply system, as well as to reveal the main causes of the destruction of this system. At this stage, there is a sharp increase in the interdependence of politics and energetics as well as their merger. Therefore, one of the main messages of the article is the thesis that oil and related issues were at the center of the US Middle East foreign policy. It was determined that the main components of the US strategy were maintaining access to oil resources in the Middle East and strengthening their positions in the region, which was stipulated by the factor of intersystem confrontation. The doctrinal foundations of the American oil strategy in the region were determined. The evolution of political processes in the Middle East, which led to the destruction of the foundations of the global energy supply system, was examined. It is shown how dynamic changes in international politics and the world economy influenced the transformation of American politics in the Middle East with elements of balancing between the countries of the region, for which oil and energetics, in general, have become the main factor in foreign policy. It was the study of political and economic processes in their dynamics that allowed the author to highlight critical moments in international politics and economics. Important place in the article is devoted to the activities of American oil companies, their economic relations with the governments of the Middle East countries, which became the subject of political confrontation between these countries and the U.S. Based on the given facts, it was established that the US policy to maintain the status quo in the Middle East had been actually stopped in the early 1970s. Instead, it was not formed the clear long term course of foreign policy, which could provide the interests of the USA and its allies in the field of economics and energetics.

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