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Low-carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective

Name: Low-carbon Energy Security from a European Perspective
ISBN: 9780128029879

by Patrizia Lombardi, Max Gruenig

June 2016

Intermediate to advanced

284 pages

9h 41m

English

Academic Press

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Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of Contributors
Foreword
Chapter 1. Challenging the Energy Security Paradigm
1.1. Introduction: The Prevailing Energy Security Paradigm1.2. Harmonizing Energy and Climate Policies1.3. Our Approach1.4. Structure of the Book
Chapter 2. European Union Energy Policy Evolutionary Patterns
2.1. Introduction2.2. The Development of the EU Energy Policy2.3. Current Energy Regime and Main Challenges for Energy Security2.4. Past, Present and Future European Union Climate and Energy Strategies2.5. Conclusions
Chapter 3. A Study of Russia as Key Natural Gas Supplier to Europe in Terms of Security of Supply and Market Power
3.1. Introduction3.2. Current Look at Natural Gas in the EU3.3. European Union–Russia Gas Relations3.4. EU Policies Targeted to Improve Natural Gas Security3.5. Russian Gas Strategies Under Uncertainty3.6. Conclusion
Chapter 4. The Macroregional Geopolitics of Energy Security: Towards a New Energy World Order?
4.1. Introduction4.2. Energy Security in the International Debate4.3. The Macroregional Geopolitics of Energy Security4.4. European Energy Geopolitics: Key Regions4.5. Conclusions and Future Perspectives

Chapter 5. Reshaping Equilibria: Renewable Energy Mega-Projects and Energy Security
5.1. Introduction: Assessing the Contribution of Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects to Low-Carbon Energy Security5.2. Tapping the Desert for Sustainable Power: Morocco and North Africa5.3. The Winds of the North Sea5.4. Lessons for a Low-Carbon and Secure Energy Transition
Chapter 6. European Distributed Renewable Energy Case Studies
6.1. Introduction6.2. Anticipatory Experiences: Reflecting How We Envisage the Long-term Ways Renewable Energy Will Compete With Fossil Fuels in a Liberalised Market Environment6.3. The German Experience of the Energiewende6.4. The Italian Experience With Renewable Energy6.5. Costs, Competitiveness and Climate Change Mitigation in European Union Energy Security Policy6.6. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Energy Security in Low-Carbon Pathways
7.1. Introduction7.2. Review of Global Scenarios in the Fifth IPCC Report7.3. Global Evaluation of Energy Security Challenges in Low-Carbon Pathways7.4. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Towards Governance of Energy Security
8.1. Introduction: Transition as an Unstructured Problem8.2. The Conceptual Babylon of Energy Security8.3. The Impossibility of Reducing Factual Uncertainty8.4. Unstructured Problems8.5. Governance for Energy Security8.6. Conclusions
Chapter 9. Reducing Uncertainty Through a Systemic Risk-Management Approach
9.1. Introduction: Structuring Energy Security9.2. Towards a Systemic View on Energy Security9.3. Secure Energy Systems in Practice9.4. Governance of Systemic Risks9.5. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Towards a Low-Carbon, Citizens-Driven Europe’s Energy Security Agenda
10.1. Reframing the Dominant Discourse on Energy Security in Europe10.2. The Rise of the Human Factor10.3. Some Major Recommendations for Improving European Energy Policies
Index

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Chapter 5

Reshaping Equilibria

Renewable Energy Mega-Projects and Energy Security

M. Gruenig¹^,², and B. O’Donnell² ¹Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany ²Ecologic Institute US, Washington, DC, United States

Abstract

Renewable energy mega-projects have the potential to play a significant role in Europe's transition to a low-carbon energy system. However, the question remains whether these expansive undertakings will contribute to energy security. Four mega-projects at various stages of planning, construction and implementation are examined in this chapter. Two projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Noor and DESERTEC, interpret the idea of interdependent energy systems in contrasting ways, the latter relying on the existing ...

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