Security aspects of future renewable energy systems–A short overview
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Energy security is sometimes used to advocate renewable energy systems. Renewable energy systems can improve some aspects of security, but they will not automatically lead to the removal of all types of security problems and new problems will most certainly arise. This paper analyses energy security aspects of renewable energy systems on the basis of a broad typology on energy and security. Renewable energy sources do not suffer from the same long-term resource availability problems as finite fossil resources and their geographical location is less concentrated, but other issues such as dependence on variable flowing resources and competition for scarce land resources will grow in importance. Many security issues related to energy are also dependent on the energy carrier rather than the energy resource and on the existence of effectively functioning institutions and regulations. New interdependencies will appear and will have to be handled within future international and bilateral institutional frameworks.
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New energy sources, technologies, and sector practices replace rather than eliminate energy system vulnerabilities.
“Generally, new energy sources, technologies, and sector practices replace rather than eliminate energy system vulnerabilities [56,79].”
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This suggests reduced rather than eliminated dependency on imports as many renewable studies tend to assume.
“This suggests reduced rather than eliminated dependency on imports as many renewable studies tend to assume [56].”
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Expected growth of variable renewable energy would shift system vulnerabilities from stocks to flows, but continued use of natural gas or uptake of sustainably produced chemical fuels such as hydrogen would retain many existing energy security considerations.
“Expected growth of variable renewable energy (VRE) would shift system vulnerabilities from stocks to flows [56,90], however, continued use of NG or uptake of sustainably produced chemical fuels such as hydrogen would retain many existing energy security considerations.”
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Rare or critical materials needed for renewable technologies may be concentrated in fewer countries than fossil fuels are today, though material supply risks could be mitigated with increased availability and quality of substitutes as well as increased recycling.
“Rare or critical materials needed for renewable technologies may be concentrated in fewer countries than fossil fuels are today, though material supply risks could be mitigated with increased availability and quality of substitutes as well as increased recycling [56].”
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Renewables are subject to economies of scale which suggest that a significant share of renewable power production capacity will be in sites with an as large or even larger capacity than many existing fossil fuel plants.
“Renewables are also subject to economies of scale which suggest that a significant share of renewable power production capacity will be in sites with an as large or even larger capacity than many existing fossil fuel plants [56,116].”
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- Authors
- Johansson, B.
- Affiliations
- Swedish Defence Research Agency (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Johansson, Bengt
- ORCID
- Johansson, Bengt
- Venue
- Energy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-11
- Volume
- 61
- Pages
- 598-605
- ISSN
- 0360-5442 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2053090054
- Cited by
- 268
- References
- 88
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 55.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Energy (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Swedish Energy Agency
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › General Energy › Global Energy Security and Policy
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Renewable Energy and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Keywords
- energy security, renewable energy systems, resource availability, land use competition, energy carriers, international energy governance, bilateral energy agreements
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