Title: Reassessing fossil fuels in a time of disruption: hydrogen, natural gas and future possibilities

Authors: Ryan Holmes; Darren McCauley; Thomas Muinzer

Addresses: Glasgow Caledonian University, London, England, UK ' Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, South Holland, The Netherlands ' Centre for Energy Law, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Abstract: Energy governance is undergoing a period of uncertainty as a result of climate related challenges and these uncertainties have been profoundly exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The stage of uncertainty energy governance is experiencing can be characterised as one of disruption. This study reassesses the condition of energy governance in the context of disruption with particular reference to the role that hydrogen and natural gas might play in going forward. In doing so, it places an emphasis on the protracted impact of disruption occasioned by climate change regulation. Greater understanding of the strengths and weaknesses that stabilising options provide, and of their relationship to the broader complex disruptive forces that they interact with, will assist in better illuminating present and future challenges underlying the governance of energy.

Keywords: energy governance; energy transition; just transition; hydrogen; natural gas.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.2024.140766

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2024 Vol.46 No.5, pp.454 - 462

Received: 07 Jun 2022
Accepted: 30 Nov 2022
Published online: 02 Sep 2024 *

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