A systemic approach to assessing energy security in a low-carbon EU energy system

Gracceva, Francesco; Zeniewski, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.12.018

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“…It is even argued by some that the uncertainties surrounding energy security are so pervasive that the only sure way of maximising energy security is to maximise diversity (Bradshaw 2010;Grubb et al 2006;Stirling 1994;1998). However, as shall be evident throughout this thesis, diversification is but a single facet of a far more complex subject; an amount of diversity may well be a necessary feature of a secure energy system, but it is not sufficient to ensure energy security by itself Christoff 2011;Gracceva and Zeniewski 2014;Ranjan and Hughes 2014;Stirling 2010). …”

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“…Therefore, Renn and Klinke (2004) advise that analysis of risk should be broadened out so that risk and vulnerability can be assessed under a diverse range of criteria. As an example of this, Gracceva and Zeniewski (2014) note that diversity provides a good means of minimising risk under conditions of 'ignorance', but that many other dimensions of energy security extend beyond diversity, and that therefore it is important to address multiple aspects of the Uncertainty Matrix in an assessment of energy security.…”

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Assessing Energy Security in a Low-Carbon Context: The Case of Electricity in the UK

Cox

2016

SSRN Journal

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Assessing Energy Security in a Low-Carbon Context: The Case of Electricity in the UK

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2016

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“…Second, indicators are limited in assessing specific energy system's responses to exogenous future shocks as they carry only condensed proxy information (Cherp and Jewell, 2011;Gracceva and Zeniewski, 2014). Third, energy security indicators do not provide information on economic costs and benefits of alternative levels of energy security (Gracceva and Zeniewski, 2014). Fourth, the multifacetedness of the energy security notion gives rise for multiple indicators but then faces inherent difficulties of a meaningful aggregation (Böhringer and Jochem, 2007;Kruyt et al, 2009;Frondel and Schmidt, 2014).…”

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“…7 Studies that develop and apply energy security indicators for governing energy security policies include Costantini et al (2007), Gnansounou (2008), Le Coq andPaltseva (2009), Jansen andSeebregts (2010), Lefèvre (2010), Löschel et al (2010), Cohen, Joutz, and Loungani (2011), Sovacool (2013, Frondel and Schmidt (2014), and Yao and Chang (2014). 2013; Gracceva and Zeniewski, 2014). Second, indicators are limited in assessing specific energy system's responses to exogenous future shocks as they carry only condensed proxy information (Cherp and Jewell, 2011;Gracceva and Zeniewski, 2014).…”

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Sense and no(n)-sense of energy security indicators

Böhringer

Bortolamedi

2015

Ecological Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractEnergy security ranks high on the policy agenda of many countries. To improve on energy security, governments undertake regulatory measures for promoting renewable energy, increasing energy efficiency, or curbing carbon dioxide emissions. The impacts of such measures on energy security are typically monitored by means of so-called energy security indicators. In this paper, we show that the common use of wide-spread energy security indicators falls short of providing a meaningful metric.Regulatory measures to improve on energy security trigger ambiguous effects across energy security indicators. We conclude that a major pitfall of energy security indicators is the lack of a rigorous microeconomic foundation.

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Between Climate Change and Energy Security Objectives: The Potential Role of Shale Gas

Gracceva

Zeniewski

2015

Handbook of Clean Energy Systems

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The increasing interest in developing unconventional hydrocarbon resources will have important interactions with the transition to a low carbon energy system. The purpose of this article is to explore the uncertainty around the future development of shale gas and to study the complex relationship between climate change policies and energy security, using a methodology accounting for the multidimensional and systemic nature of energy security. Using a complex multiregional model of the global energy system, a scenario analysis has been developed to answer two questions: (i) to what extent and under which conditions is the deployment of shale gas consistent with a low carbon system? (ii) as a low carbon energy system prompts a number of structural changes along the whole energy supply chain, can shale gas help to dampen the negative impact on energy security of these changes? The structure of this article is as follows. Section 1 will conceptualize the links between energy security and low carbon policies and will introduce a methodological framework to assess their interactions. Section 2 will outline the modeling tools used for this assessment, and will elaborate on the input assumptions guiding the scenario analysis. Section 3 will present the results and discuss them in the context of the methodological framework set out in the first section. This will be followed by a conclusion and recommendation for future research.

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A systemic approach to assessing energy security in a low-carbon EU energy system

Cited by 135 publications

References 32 publications

Assessing Energy Security in a Low-Carbon Context: The Case of Electricity in the UK

Assessing Energy Security in a Low-Carbon Context: The Case of Electricity in the UK

Sense and no(n)-sense of energy security indicators

Between Climate Change and Energy Security Objectives: The Potential Role of Shale Gas

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