Case studies - factors affecting energy security
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- Factors affecting energy security - Case Studies
- California
- weather
- limited capacity of power lines to import electricity
- 2000 3rd year of drought
- less surplus energy due to lack of hydro-electricity from surrounding states
- summer was very hot so increased demand for air conditioning
- insufficient generating capacity
- anti-pollutant laws in 1970s meant energy companies were unwilling to build new power stations
- UK
- gas availability
- north sea gas expected to run out in next 50 years
- 2004 - over 90% of UK gas supply was produced in UK
- in 2020 gas supply from UK is expected to be 10%
- 20% expected to be imported from Norway
- 40% expected to be imported from Europe
- decreased political power for UK
- increased political power for gas rich nations
- Russia supplies 30% of EU gas
- increased political power for gas rich nations
- oil availability
- potential for political instability between UK and oi producing states
- volatile oil prices
- many argue that global peak oil was reached in 2006
- renewable energy concerns
- limited amount of sun for solar power
- concerns of waste from nuclear power plants
- gas availability
- China
- dependency on coal
- vulnerable to global warming sanctions
- gov is being pressured to find an alternative to coal
- reduce levels of pollution
- reduce contribution to climate change
- oil fields have reached peak oil
- oil deposits in Tarim Basin are expensive and difficult to exploit
- remote location and difficult geology
- China's deep water exploration of oil may be threatened by political conflict
- Vietnam and Philippines
- HEP
- dams vulnerable to natural hazards
- natural gas
- expensive and difficult to build pipelines
- liquefied gas is in short supply
- dependency on coal
- California
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