Special Issue "Energy Security within the Nexus of Risk, Resilience and Sustainability: Antinomy or Panacea?"

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Economics and Policy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Peter Burgherr
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Head Technology Assessment Group, Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
Interests: comparative risk assessment; sustainability; energy security; critical infrastructure protection; multicriteria decision analysis; energy policy; scenario analysis; resilience; databases; GIS
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Dr. Eleftherios Siskos
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Technology Assessment Group, Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
Interests: energy policy; resilience assessment; climate change mitigation; sustainable development; risk analysis; operational research; multicriteria decision analysis; decision support systems; robustness analysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It has been widely recognized that human civilization is over-exploiting resources at an ever-increasing speed and at highly unsustainable levels. This is particularly true for the energy sector and leads to unprecedented impacts with regard to global warming, air pollution, and energy security. This Special Issue focuses on the central role of energy security and how it is interconnected in a broader perspective to the concepts of sustainability, resilience, and decision making under risk and uncertainty. Within the context of the global energy transition toward a low-carbon and net-zero emissions energy system, shifts in technology, demand and supply patterns, geopolitics, etc., thus lead to increased and new security risks that are also linked to current and future infrastructure, resource availability and use, and the intersection with cybersecurity and hybrid threats, among others.

For this Special Issue, we invite contributions that look at energy security from different viewpoints. For example, evaluation of potential trade-offs and synergies with the Sustainability Development Goals (SDG), geopolitical transformations generated by the rise of renewables and the decline of fossil fuels, and how these changes can contribute to a more resilient future energy system. Furthermore, we welcome articles on the implications of future energy and climate scenarios on energy security, including consideration of extreme scenarios and external shocks that are analyzed either quantitatively (e.g., tails of probabilistic distributions) or qualitatively (e.g., people’s perceptions and knowledge). Lastly, we encourage submissions that propose decision support frameworks to identify optimal portfolios of energy policies to achieve deep decarbonization goals and to humanize the energy transition by reducing implementation and consequential risks for society.

Dr. Peter Burgherr
Dr. Eleftherios Siskos
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • Energy security
  • Energy sector
  • Risk
  • Sustainability
  • Resilience
  • Critical infrastructure
  • Geopolitics
  • Energy transition
  • Scenario analysis
  • Cybersecurity
  • Hybrid threats
  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)
  • Robustness analysis
  • Policy and decision making

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What Is the Macroeconomic Impact of Higher Decarbonization Speeds? The Case of Greece
Energies 2021, 14(8), 2235; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14082235 - 16 Apr 2021
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In alignment with the European Union’s legislation, Greece submitted its final 10-year National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) in December 2019, setting more ambitious energy and climate targets than those originally proposed in the draft version of the document. Apart from higher penetration [...] Read more.
In alignment with the European Union’s legislation, Greece submitted its final 10-year National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) in December 2019, setting more ambitious energy and climate targets than those originally proposed in the draft version of the document. Apart from higher penetration of renewable energy sources (RES), the final NECP projects also zero carbon use in power generation till 2030. Although decarbonization has long been regarded beneficial for economies that base their energy production on coal, as it is the case with Greece, the macroeconomic and societal ramifications of faster transitions to carbon-free economies remain highly unexplored. Under this context, in this paper, we soft-link energy models, namely Times-Greece and Primes, with a macroeconomic model, namely Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), to measure the effects of the final and draft NECPs on the Greek economy and evaluate the impact of higher decarbonization speeds. We find that the faster transition scenario displays both economic and societal merits, increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and household income by about 1% and 7%, respectively. Full article
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