The geopolitics of metals and metalloids used for the renewable energy transition
By André Månberger, Bengt Johansson. Energy Strategy Reviews, 2019
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Abstract This study examines the geopolitical role of 14 metals and metalloids needed for renewable energy technologies. The analysis focuses on three factors with potential geopolitical importance: the geographic concentration of resources, potential revenues of resources rich countries and the size of total global markets. The geographic concentration of most of the fourteen studied metals and metalloids will be higher than for oil. The only exceptions are tellurium, copper and silicon. The economic revenues as fraction of total economic throughput will be rather low for most of the countries studied. This will reduce the risk for a resource curse to emerge. The exceptions are the Democratic republic of Congo, Chile, Cuba, Madagascar and Zambia. The total economic value of the studied metals and metalloids will also be much smaller than the current oil market.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Energy, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- 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.”