Factors affecting energy security
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 22-02-14 10:14
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- Factors affecting energy security
- physical
- disruption of supply lines by natural hazards
- earthquakes
- exhaustion of reserves
- UK coal mines shut in 1980s
- onshore deposits of oil and gas are easier to develop than offshore
- limited amount of sun for solar power in some locations
- disruption of supply lines by natural hazards
- environmental
- environmental damage
- caused by exploitation of energy resource
- protests about environmental change
- environmental damage
- economic
- rise in cost
- exhaustion of domestic supplies forcing increased imports of higher-priced energy
- most accessible and cheap resources are developed first
- reached peak oil production in USA in 1970s
- china has reached peak oil
- geopolitical
- political instability in energy-producing regions
- disputes
- sovereignty of resources
- energy transmission by pipelines or cables across countries
- foreign imports gives power to other countries
- Russia
- decreased political power for UK
- Gas supply will run in 50 years time
- human
- population increase
- increased need for energy
- greater consumption of convenient fossil fuels
- population increase
- physical
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