Evaluating energy security in the Asia Pacific: towards a more comprehensive approach

By Benjamin Sovacool. 2011

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The energy security conundrum – how to equitably provide available, affordable, reliable, efficient, and environmentally benign energy services – is a technology and policy challenge, perhaps unlike any other. The recent article on an energy security in the Asia Pacific by Vlado Vivoda is an excellent starting point for how to best capture the unique energy security challenges facing the region. This article builds on Vivoda’s work, but also points out some shortcomings with his analysis.

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An international assessment of energy security performance (2013, background): “Analysts expect world energy demand to expand by 45% between now and 2030, and by more than 300% by the end of the century, necessitating a tripling in the amount of needed investment in infrastructure (Brown and Sovacool, 2011).”
Three blind men and an elephant: The case of energy indices to measure energy security and energy sustainability (2015, background): “Considering the importance of energy-related issues in a rapidly changing world scenario, various studies have been undertaken to analyse energy security and energy sustainability from different perspectives [27–32].”
Resilience and electricity systems: A comparative analysis (2012, background): “”(Stirling, 1994,p196) Diversity indices are often used in energy security calculations and are considered a good way of hedging against unforeseen supply risks (Kruyt et al., 2009) and mitigating against technological lock-in (Sovacool, 2011).”
Definitions and dimensions of energy security: a literature review (2018, background): “Furthermore, poverty can be worsened or alleviated by the energy access level(32) The numerical indexes that can be used are different, for example, reserve to production ratios,(49,82) reserve per capita,(51) resource estimates,(137) or total energy resources per capita.(36) However, many of these ”
Energy system resilience – A review (2021, background): “On the other hand, attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of energy security by listing multiple dimensions and indicators [41,42]”
Evaluating energy security in the Asia-Pacific region: A novel methodological approach (2010, methodology): “…with an * have been adapted from Von Hippel et al. (2009); energy security dimensions and attributes annotated with an ° have been adapted from Sovacool (2011) A key goal of energy policy is to improve energy security – whether broadly or narrowly defined – and thus to reduce existing or…”