Evaluating energy security performance from 1990 to 2010 for eighteen countries

By Benjamin Sovacool, Ishan Mukherjee, Ira Martina Drupady, A. D’Agostino. 2011

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This study provides an index for evaluating national energy security policies and performance among the United States, European Union, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the ten countries comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Drawn from research interviews, a survey instrument, and a focused workshop, the article first argues that energy security ought to be comprised of five dimensions related to availability, affordability, technology development, sustainability, and regulation. The article then breaks these dimensions down into 20 components and correlates them with 20 metrics that constitute a comprehensive energy security index. We find that the top three performers of our index for all data points and times are Japan, Brunei, and the United States and the worst performers Vietnam, India, and Myanmar. Malaysia, Australia, and Brunei saw their energy security improve the most from 1990 to 2010 whereas Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar saw it decline the most. The article concludes by calling for more research on various aspects of our index and its results.

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

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Energy supply security in the EU: Benchmarking diversity and dependence of primary energy (2017, background): “[27] Sovacool BK, Mukherjee I, Drupady IM, D’Agostino AL.”
Energy policymaking in Denmark: Implications for global energy security and sustainability (2013, unknown): “Other studies, using different metrics and assumptions, also consistently rank or rate Denmark highly, though not always “first” (Nordic Energy Research and the International Energy Agency, 2013; Sovacool, 2013; World Economic Forum, 2012; Cherp et al., 2012; Sovacool et al., 2011; Gupta, 2008).”
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].”
An international assessment of energy security performance (2013, background): “Presumably, this is due to a lack of consensus on how best to capture these elements (Sovacool and Brown, 2010; Sovacool et al., 2011).”