Energy Supply Security in Southern Europe and Ireland

Chalvatzis, Konstantinos J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9829-7030 and Ioannidis, Alexis (2017) Energy Supply Security in Southern Europe and Ireland. Energy Procedia, 105. pp. 2916-2922. ISSN 1876-6102

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Abstract

Energy supply security is of paramount importance to all countries, however, not all countries present the same capacity to respond to energy security threats. Financial wealth is one of the means that can support access to energy resources and as such countries that have been hit the hardest by the 2008 financial crisis present energy supply vulnerabilities. We focus on Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece and find that they have continuously improved their energy supply diversity. At the same time, we argue that during, and as a result of the financial crisis our focus countries reduced their exposure to expensive imported resources predominantly in the transport sector and increased the role of renewables. Overall, we find improved supply security which could be strengthened further if financial resources were directed towards innovation for renewable energy sources.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	energy security,sovereign debt,south europe,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Related URLs:	http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Jun 2017 05:08
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2024 20:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63676
DOI:	10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.660

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