Energy Security

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Factors Affecting Energy Security:

Supply/availability

Geopolitics

Demand/consumption

Countries that are at high and extreme risk of energy insecurity include;

- Europe and USA - Anomalies in Europe is Norway that has its own supply

- Large parts of Africa

High risk developed; e.g. UK, USA, Germany - High demand per capita, dwindling supplies of their own. Rely on Russia/Middle East

High risk developing; e.g. Brazil, India - heavily industrialising, high demand for coal/oil emerging

e.g. Sub Saharan Africa - low demand, don't have ability/money to extract

The gap between supply and demand is getting narrower - UKs coals plants to be phased out within 10 years.

Gas is central to our energy secure future. So is nuclear energy security