Energy supply, its demand and security issues for developed and emerging economies

Asif, Muhammad; Muneer, Tariq

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2005.12.004

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“…Emerging markets, mainly represented by the BRICS Group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and the MITSK Group (Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey and South Korea), are considered to be a main concern in terms of future energy supply security (Asif and Muneer, 2007;Sadorsky, 2009). The current rates of economic development in these countries indicates that increased energy demand at all sectoral levels may therefore represent a threat to achieving global reduction objectives for 2050 (IPCC, 2007).…”

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Modelling the energy and exergy utilisation of the Mexican non-domestic sector: A study by climatic regions

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This paper presents the development of a bottom-up stock model to perform a holistic energy study of the Mexican non-domestic sector. The current energy and exergy flows are shown based on a categorisation by climatic regions with the aim of understanding the impact of local characteristics on regional efficiencies. Due to the limited data currently available, the study is supported by the development of a detailed archetype-based stock model using EnergyPlus as a first law analysis tool combined with an existing exergy analysis method. Twenty-one reference models were created to estimate the electric and gas use in the sector. The results indicate that sectoral energy and exergy annual input are 95.37 PJ and 94.28 PJ respectively. Regional exergy efficiencies were found to be 17.8%, 16.6% and 23.2% for the hot-dry, hot-humid and temperate climates respectively. The study concludes that significant potential for improvements still exists, especially in the cases of space conditioning, lighting, refrigeration, and cooking where most exergy destructions occur. Additionally, this work highlights that the method described may be further used to study the impact of large-scale refurbishments and promote national regulations and standards for sustainable buildings that takes into consideration energy and exergy indicators.

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Modelling the energy and exergy utilisation of the Mexican non-domestic sector: A study by climatic regions

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“…In the existing literature, energy security is most commonly defined as the reliable supply of energy at reasonable prices to support the economy and industry [28][29][30][31][32][33] . This traditional definition of 5 energy security has been critiqued for being too narrow and for downplaying broader social and environmental factors such as climate change or community acceptance 34 .…”

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Measuring energy security performance within China: Toward an inter-provincial prospective

Zhang

Sovacool

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ABSTRACT:China has been the world's largest energy consumer and producer for many years, yet while myriad studies have investigated Chinese performance on energy metrics compared to other countries, few to none have looked internally at Chinese provinces. This paper firstly develops a five-dimensional evaluation system centered on the energy security dimensions of availability and diversity, affordability and equality, technology and efficiency, environmental sustainability, and governance and innovation. It then correlates these dimensions to 20 distinct energy security metrics that are used to assess the energy security performance of 30 Chinese provinces, divided into eight regions. Our results reveal both trends in energy policy and practice as well as provincial status of comparative energy security for the year 2013. We find, for instance, that there is no province which performs well in all five of the energy security dimensions, and that all provinces confronted threats related to energy availability and diversity. We also demonstrate that in comparative terms, the Middle Reaches of Yellow River and the Northwest were the most energysecure, while the Middle Reaches of Yangtze River and the Northeast were least energy-secure.

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“…Aside from security through stockpiling, fuel silicon output at source could also be secured by distributing smelters and solar power utilisation over a significant number of different "solar nations". In contrast, many writers (e.g., Asif and Muneer, 2007) have commented on the present insecure geopolitical situation of oil and gas sources and associated transport routes.…”

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The Sustainable Global Energy Economy: Hydrogen or Silicon?

Bardsley

2008

Nat Resour Res

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A sustainable global silicon energy economy is proposed as a potential alternative to the hydrogen economy. This first visualisation of a silicon energy economy is based on largescale and carbon-neutral metallic silicon production from major smelters in North Africa and elsewhere, supplied by desert silica sand and electricity from extensive solar generating systems. The resulting "fuel silicon" is shipped around the world to emissionfree silicon power stations for either immediate electricity generation or stockpiling. The high energy density of silicon and its stable storage make it an ideal material for maintaining national economic functioning through security of base load power supply from a renewable source. This contrasts with the present situation of fossil fuel usage with its associated global warming and geopolitical supply uncertainties. Critical technological requirements for the silicon economy are carbon-neutral silicon production and the development of efficient silicon-fired power stations capable of high-temperature rapid oxidation of fuel silicon. A call is made for the development of research effort into these specific engineering issues, and also with respect to large-scale economical solar power generation.

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Energy supply, its demand and security issues for developed and emerging economies

Cited by 1,045 publications

References 11 publications

Modelling the energy and exergy utilisation of the Mexican non-domestic sector: A study by climatic regions

Modelling the energy and exergy utilisation of the Mexican non-domestic sector: A study by climatic regions

Measuring energy security performance within China: Toward an inter-provincial prospective

The Sustainable Global Energy Economy: Hydrogen or Silicon?

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