The Political Concept of Energy Security : The Case of Jordan = المفهوم السياسي لأمن الطاقة : الحالة الأردنية

Ayasreh, Emad Abdallah; Bakar, Mohamad Zaini Bin Abu; Khosravi, Roghayeh

doi:10.12816/0040578

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“…As it emerges from a brief review of the literature, the research on energy security in Jordan has explored characteristics of the energy market in the country, adoption of renewable energy [6,17,[34][35][36], policies to boost it [37,38], and its potential and challenges [13][14][15]. Several contributions are also dealing with the political implications of energy security [39], recommendations [40], and policy options, in particular in relation to cooperation with neighboring countries [5,11,16]. Given the severe water scarcity of the country and the increasing energy demand of the water sector, addressing the water-energy nexus has been also discussed as an important element in achieving sustainability [41,42].…”

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“…The reliance on imported energy has historically increased the vulnerability of Jordan towards regional events, as "Jordan's energy landscape has been impacted by relations between and among its Middle Eastern neighbours" [5]. Thus, geopolitics, Jordanian foreign policy, and energy security have been intertwined and interlinked and can serve as a useful lens to understand energy policy in Jordan [39].…”

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Sustainability of the Energy Sector in Jordan: Challenges and Opportunities

2020

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The acceleration of economic development and rising standards of living have made energy security a top priority for policy makers worldwide. The issue of securing energy is particularly challenging for Jordan, which suffers from scarcity of natural resources, combined with the regional instability and conflicts. Based on desk research and on experts’ interviews, this study discusses the status quo of the energy sector in Jordan, its main challenges, and future aspirations. It thus contributes to the debate on how Jordan can ensure environmental, economic, social, and political sustainability of its energy sector. Jordan’s energy security has been historically linked to its relations with the neighboring countries and thus vulnerable to external shocks and outside political events. Notwithstanding reform efforts to reduce dependency from imports and some progress in diversifying the energy mix, energy security remains critical: the country imports around 94% of its energy, which represents approximately 10% of GDP. The growing domestic demand, which increases at a yearly rate of 3%, further adds to the pressure to envision strategies towards a more sustainable energy sector. These strategies will need to include investment in renewable energy, the reduction of energy consumption via increasing energy efficiency, and also synergic agreements with other countries. The interviewed experts highlighted the importance of governance for the successful implementation of these strategies. The creation of an enabling environment should go hand in hand with the involvement of all key stakeholders from energy and related sectors, into the development of a future vision of a sustainable energy sector.

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Section: Energy Security In Jordan: a Review Of Its Current Statusmentioning

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Section: Energy Security In Jordan: a Review Of Its Current Statusmentioning

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Sustainability of the Energy Sector in Jordan: Challenges and Opportunities

2020

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“…With the energy mix in Jordan heavily depending on this type, Jordan imported 97% of its energy demands in the first decade of this century, mainly from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Egypt (MEMR, 2011). The security of energy supply is critical issue for energy importing countries, (Doukas et al, 2011) and with the location of Jordan in a conflict hot spot, the dependence on energy imports becomes more challenging (Ayasreh et al, 2017;Almuhtady et al, 2019). Since the 60's of the last century, conflicts had repeatedly erupted affecting Jordan from all aspects.…”

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Impact of Regional Conflicts on Energy Security in Jordan

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2020

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This paper presents a study which analyzes the energy security in Jordan in light of several regional conflicts for the period . We apply an event study method to assess the direct and indirect effects of six regional conflicts on the energy sector in Jordan based on a proposed energy security framework developed from an infusion of frameworks found in literature. The conflicts include the 6 days war, Lebanese civil war, Iraq-Iran war, First Gulf war, Iraq Invasion, and Egyptian revolution. It was found that the energy sector in Jordan is too sensitive to the regional conflicts due to the lack of diversity of energy suppliers throughout the period of study. Other aspects taken into consideration included strategic storage adequacy, supply chain protection, economic integration, energy demands and prices. The study concludes with a proposed energy policy aiming the reduction of those effects.

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“…Between 1960 to 2011, six regional conflicts had direct or indirect effects on the energy sector in Jordan, namely, the Six Day War, the Lebanese Civil War, the Iraq-Iran War, the First Gulf war, the invasion of Iraq and the Egyptian revolution [4]. More recently, Jordan has been facing additional challenges concerning the energy and water sectors, such as a low level of foreign investment and substantial population growth due mainly to migration from war stricken Syria [5,6]. Unfortunately, there is a lack of literature dealing with the roles of foreign policy and politics and energy security in the case of Jordan.…”

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Analysis of Cost-Optimal Renewable Energy Expansion for the Near-Term Jordanian Electricity System

2020

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Jordan is affected by an ever changing environment in the midst of climate change, political challenges, a fast growing economy and socio-economic pressures. Among other countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa, Jordan is facing a number of electricity related challenges, such as a rising energy demand, high dependency on fossil fuel imports and management of local, fossil and renewable resources. The paper presents an analysis based on an open source optimisation modelling approach identifying a cost-optimal extension of the Jordanian electricity system with growing demand projections until 2030 utilising pumped hydro energy storage and determining the costs of different CO2 mitigation pathways. The results highlight the large potential of renewable energy for the cost effective, environmentally friendly and energy independent development of the Jordanian electricity sector. A share of up to 50% renewable energy can be achieved with only a minor increase in levelised cost of electricity from 54.42 to 57.04 $/MWh. In particular, a combination of photovoltaic and pumped hydro storage proved to be a superior solution compared to the expansion of existing shale oil deployments due to high costs and CO2 emissions. Aiming for a more than 50% renewable energy share within the electricity mix calls for substantial wind energy deployments. In a system with a renewable energy share of 90%, wind energy covers 45% of the demand.

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The Political Concept of Energy Security : The Case of Jordan = المفهوم السياسي لأمن الطاقة : الحالة الأردنية

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Sustainability of the Energy Sector in Jordan: Challenges and Opportunities

Sustainability of the Energy Sector in Jordan: Challenges and Opportunities

Impact of Regional Conflicts on Energy Security in Jordan

Analysis of Cost-Optimal Renewable Energy Expansion for the Near-Term Jordanian Electricity System

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