scholarly journals Vedat Yorucu and Özay Mehmet: The Southern Energy Corridor: Turkey’s Role in European Energy Security

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-49
Author(s):  
Martina Dočkalová
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Rational Behavior ◽  
East Mediterranean ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Energy Hub ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Transit Country ◽  
The Eu

This book highlights the importance of Turkey in diversifying supplies in future European energy security, focusing in particular on the rapidly emerging southern energy corridor. Turkey, by its location, occupies a key role in this corridor, fed by hydrocarbon supplies from Russian, Caspian, east Mediterranean and Arab sources. The book examines Turkey's role as a transit country (in addition to its own growing domestic energy market) and it utilizes the latest evidence on the geopolitics of various pipelines which convergence on Turkey. The evidence, including maps, strongly favor Turkey as an energy hub within a regional energy model driven by rational behavior and market forces. The book recommends an increasing strategic energy cooperation between the EU and Turkey to maximize mutual interest.

EU Climate and Energy Policy: A Hesitant Supranational Turn?

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørgen Wettestad ◽  
Per Ove Eikeland ◽  
Måns Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Emissions Trading ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Climate And Energy Policy

This article examines the recent changes of three central EU climate and energy policies: the revised Emissions Trading Directive (ETS); the Renewables Directive (RES); and internal energy market (IEM) policy. An increasing transference of competence to EU level institutions, and hence “vertical integration,” has taken place, most clearly in the case of the ETS. The main reasons for the differing increase in vertical integration are, first, that more member states were dissatisfied with the pre-existing system in the case of the ETS than in the two other cases. Second, the European Commission and Parliament were comparatively more united in pushing for changes in the case of the ETS. And, third, although RES and IEM policies were influenced by regional energy security concerns, they were less structurally linked to and influenced by the global climate regime than the ETS.

European Energy Security and Sustainability

2011 ◽  
pp. 38-67
Author(s):  
Anatoly Zhuplev ◽  
Dmitry A. Shtykhno
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Technology Investment ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Energy Dependent ◽  
The Eu

Europe’s economic wellbeing and growth are highly energy dependent and heavily reliant on Russian imports of oil and gas. European energy security, its alternatives, and implications are examined in this chapter with the view of sustainability and the EU-Russian energy dialog. With an asymmetric mutual political-economic interdependency with Russia, Europe’s exposure in oil and gas calls for sustainable energy solutions. Meantime, Russia, the key energy supplier in the European region, is also a major energy consumer whose economy is characterized by high energy intensity. Russian energy sector needs serious improvements in technology, investment, and management: failure to address these priorities erodes Russia’s reliability as major regional energy supplier. The chapter explores the dynamics of Russian energy sector and implications for European energy security and sustainability.

Pipeline to Italy will change Balkan energy market

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
The Eu

Significance TAP is supplying gas to Greece via the Nea Mesemvria facility near Thessaloniki; Bulgaria through a temporary link from Kulata on the Greek border; and Italy, joining its network at Melendugno. This inaugurates the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC), which has been central to EU efforts to enhance energy security by diversifying supplies away from Russia. Impacts Italy’s involvement in Balkan energy includes stakes in TAP and Greece’s DESFA, and investment in the Greece-Bulgaria interconnector. Russia will lose market share in South-eastern Europe during the 2020s, unless coal closures increase demand for gas. The switch from lignite may become a matter of contention between the EU and China, which is investing in coal in Serbia and Bosnia.

scholarly journals European Energy Association (EEA) and Turkey's Regional “Energy Hub” Possibility: Opportunities and Challenges

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuran Belet
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Energy Hub ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Transit Country ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
Energy Union

European Union Commission declared its vision on European Energy Association EEA including comprehensive changes on energy strategy about energy cooperation and climate changes, as well as conversion and its multi-dimensional cooperation objectives with its report European Commission, Energy Union Package, COM 2015-80. Current cost of energy to the European Union damages its competitiveness in the international market due to its high dependence on energy supply. EU will play an active role in the international energy market with EEA on both energy dependence and on energy supply security. Only four countries are listed on the EEA vision document among alternative producers, cooperation with transit countries and strategic partners: Algeria, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey. Due to its geo-strategic location Turkey is the most affordable and reliable energy transit route between Central Asia and Europe. In this study Turkey’s place as a strategic transit country and its partnership in TAP/TANAP projects as well as its possibility to become a regional energy hub and an oil corridor in the East-West route will be discussed in detail as it is stated in EEA vision document. In this context, possibilities, challenges and related macro-economic policies will be evaluated.

Energy Security and European Union Energy Market

2017 ◽  
pp. 319-350
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Integrated Management System ◽  
Alternative Technologies ◽  
Regulatory Instruments ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Eu

The evolution of the EU is aimed at eliminating development gaps between states and creating single markets for goods in the EU. More, the creation of a single energy market will lead to profound changes both at the level of EU and national energy regulatory instruments, major infrastructure changes, and the creation of an integrated management system at European energy corridors. These involve massive investments in the field of research and implementation of performing technologies, where information systems and process digitization play a decisive role. The main objective of this chapter is to understand the necessity and purpose of creating a single energy market in the EU and to guarantee energy security through the development of non-polluting and high-efficiency alternative technologies at EU level, but also in partnership with the states in the area with huge resources.

scholarly journals Lighting it Up: Securing the Future of Europe's Energy Supply

European View ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Günther Oettinger
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Energy Markets ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
External Dimension ◽  
Weak Coordination ◽  
The Eu

Europe's economic growth has never been jeopardised by lack of energy security; however, that situation may have come to an abrupt end. Falling energy production, increasingly strict environmental standards and an ageing energy infrastructure are all threats to Europe's energy security. The EU has taken steps to ensure its energy security; however, the ‘Europeanisation’ of energy policy remains weak. Coordination among EU Member States is required not only to create an internal energy market, but also for the external dimension of the EU's energy policy. Liberalisation of energy markets and mediation of the Ukraine–Russia gas crisis have shown that such coordination is indeed possible.

scholarly journals Foreign Experience in Reforming Regional Energy Markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (46) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
R. V. Romaniuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Energy Markets ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
The Eu

Innovation and investment development is an important pre-requisite, to form competitive environment, improve the efficiency of economic entities and the liberalization process, in general. Foreign experience convincingly shows that liberalization processes in terms of radical adaptation of legislation, as well as stability, reliability and continuity of power supply (provided that the energy sector is demonopolized) are considered efficient if causing synergistic effect, making the performance of power supply business entities by times better than it used to be. The article studies the features of the transformation processes in the energy markets in the advanced countries and in Europe. A review of the criteria that formed the basis for the study has been carried out. The author identifies some consequences of the abovementioned reform of the regional energy sector markets, carried out by integrating the country’s industrial sector development. It is also mentioned that the specificity of territorial and climatic conditions should promote the search for and implementation of a model that would ensure the continuity and multi-functionality of national and regional energy markets. The stages of the reform have been monitored. The analysis of the implementation of the regulatory framework was focused on the following points: the differentiation of certain activities related to the transportation, production, purchase and sale of energy; unification of the single tariff for using energy resources on all the EU territories. It has been found out that the process of reforming the energy markets has no universal scenario that could accelerate these processes, as the transformation is only carried out under special conditions specific to a particular country. The experience of the advanced countries has shown that the consequences of the reform differ despite the application of the same models. It is noted that during the liberalization of energy markets, the EU countries primarily aimed at implementing regulatory instruments, and structurally divided them into 3 stages for the entire reformation period. The future scenario of reforming Ukraine’s energy market is outlined, taking into account the experience of the advanced countries with an emphasis on the following sectors: «the market of direct bilateral agreements», «futures market», «balancing market», «related market». The industry reform and its structural support have been monitored. The measures to be taken to reform the energy market are systematized in 4 groups: regulatory and legal, organizational and structural, financial and investment, technical and innovative measures.

Geopolitics of Energy

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Blerina Muskaj
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Political Weapon

At the beginning of my paper I will explain the concept of "Geopolitics of Energy", this will be done for a quite simple reason, because I want everyone who can sit to read this article to understand more clearly what is at stake, therefore allow them the comprehension of what is being elaborated bellow at first sight. Geopolitics of energy is a concept that relates to policies choosing exporters to implement on importers, is the policy that has an impact on energy consumption, which includes consumer’s choice in the geopolitical context, taking into account the economy, foreign policy, the safety of energy, environmental consequences and priorities that carries the energy exporter. This concept permits the understanding of how works the politics that undertakes this initiative taking into account natural resources such as: natural gas and oil. Natural gas and oil are two main resources that produce energy but also two main elements on which arises all the topic in the energetics game. For this paper is used qualitative methodology, through which we were able to accomplish this work. I focused on scientific literature, official publications and reports on energy geopolitics. The main aim has been to show how in this decade, energy security is at the center of geopolitical agenda and has become the focus of numerous political debates. Regarding this point of view, Europe is taking the initiative to create a common energy market within the continent by creating projects, in which Albania appears as a new regional energy potential. Russia, which is aiming to play a role in the international arena, is seeking to position itself geopolitically in "its political weapon", hydrocarbon resources, in particular natural gas resources.

The Southern Gas Corridor infrastructure project – implications for the energy security of the European Union

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Justyna Misiągiewicz
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Caspian Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Energy Field ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Infrastructure Project ◽  
The Eu

Nowadays, energy security is a growing concern in state foreignpolicy. Interdependency in the energy field is a very important dimensionof contemporary relations between states and transnational corporations.Energy security is becoming a key issue for the European Union (EU). TheUnion is one of the world’s fastest-growing energy markets and the biggestimporter of energy resources. For the foreseeable future, Europe’s energydependence will probably increase. Facing a shortage of energy, Europe isdependent on imports and the EU member states need to diversify their energysupplies. The Caspian region contains some of the largest undevelopedoil and gas reserves in the world. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, thenewly independent Caspian states became open to foreign investment. Thegrowing energy needs have given the EU a strong interest in developing tieswith energy-producing states in the Caspian region to build the necessarypipeline infrastructure. In this analysis, the pipeline infrastructure that exists orwill be built in the near future will be presented. The analysis will concentrateon routes transporting gas from the Caspian region and the most importantproblems and solutions in designing the midstream energy system in the region.The key aim of the article is to analyse the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC)infrastructure project, which will inevitably contribute to the EU’s energy securityinterest.

The Role of Italy in the Development of Energy Cooperation between Kazakhstan and the EU

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyailya Nurgaliyeva
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Energy Cooperation ◽  
The Eu

This paper focuses on the contribution of Italy to the development of energy cooperation between Kazakhstan and the EU, focusing on the specific case of the Kashagan oil field. I argue that Italy, as the largest importer of Kazakhstan’s oil, can play a significant role in the diversification of energy export routes from Kazakhstan and in the introduction of new European technologies. In turn, Kazakhstan can play a prominent role in ensuring the energy security of the EU, especially after the 2014 Crimea incident. I posit that recent Italy-Kazakhstan relations shows how a medium-sized power such as Italy can be important in leading a larger block of countries into a new field of investment and development.   Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v9i1.244

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