Security aspects of future renewable energy systems–A short overview

By Bengt Johansson. 2013

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Energy security is sometimes used to advocate renewable energy systems. Renewable energy systems can improve some aspects of security, but they will not automatically lead to the removal of all types of security problems and new problems will most certainly arise. This paper analyses energy security aspects of renewable energy systems on the basis of a broad typology on energy and security. Renewable energy sources do not suffer from the same long-term resource availability problems as finite fossil resources and their geographical location is less concentrated, but other issues such as dependence on variable flowing resources and competition for scarce land resources will grow in importance. Many security issues related to energy are also dependent on the energy carrier rather than the energy resource and on the existence of effectively functioning institutions and regulations. New interdependencies will appear and will have to be handled within future international and bilateral institutional frameworks.

Subfields: General Energy, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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• Assessing vulnerabilities and limits in the transition to renewable energies: Land requirements under 100% solar energy scenarios (2017, background): “Most governments are developing policy frameworks to promote the penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) to improve energy security (increasingly threatened by the depletion of conventional fossil fuels) while mitigating emissions to limit anthropogenic climate change and other negative extern”
• The geopolitics of metals and metalloids used for the renewable energy transition (2019, unknown): “[9–13]).”
• Renewable energy and geopolitics: A review (2020, background): “Many scholars and institutions have highlighted the geopolitical implications of critical materials: metals and industrial minerals required for renewable energy technologies (Habib et al. [86], Exner et al. [87], De Ridder [69], Hurd et al. [88], Buijs and Sievers [78], Rothkopf [77], Gulley et al.”
• Energy system resilience – A review (2021, background): “This suggests reduced rather than eliminated dependency on imports as many renewable studies tend to assume [56].”