Title: Security of energy supply

Authors: Matthias Hessling

Addresses: President of FECER; Ruhrkohle AG, PO Box 10 32 62, 45117 Essen, Germany

Abstract: Energy is the |sinews| of any economic activity. In highly developed countries in particular, security of energy supply - and especially security of electricity supply - is of utmost importance and constitutes a major objective of energy policy. For the European Union, however, the growing dependency on energy imports involves a high risk. Measures to improve security of supply include the utilization of domestic energy sources, e.g. coal or - if sufficient public and political acceptance exists - nuclear energy. These and other measures - such as the diversification of energy sources and suppliers - are evaluated and their application in several countries is discussed in detail.

Keywords: domestic energy; former Soviet Union; energy policy; energy supply; EU; European Union; European Energy Charter Treaty; hard coal; import dependency; nuclear energy; nuclear power; energy security; electricity supply; energy diversification.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.1995.063436

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 1995 Vol.8 No.1/2/3, pp.243-252

Published online: 14 Jul 2014 *

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