Energy security and resilience: Revisiting concepts and advancing planning perspectives for transforming integrated energy systems
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Recent events, including the pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, supply chain disruptions, and climate change impacts, have exposed the critical need to ensure energy security and resilience in energy systems. Therefore, this work initially reviews existing definitions and interrelations between energy security and resilience, conceptualising these terms in the context of energy system transformations. To highlight key challenges, especially to energy system resilience, it introduces a classification of disturbances into shock events and slow burn processes. Examples of each category illustrate their distinct impacts on technical, economic, and environmental system performance over time. To address these challenges, relevant recourse options are compiled across resilience capacity levels and system planning horizons, emphasising actionable strategies for an increasingly integrated energy system. Finally, based on the above-mentioned aspects, policy recommendations are proposed to integrate shock events and slow burn processes into future energy system planning, enabling forward-looking decision-making and system design to analyse and mitigate potential disruptions. • Review of interrelations between energy security, resilience, and related terms. • Classification of system disturbances into shock events and slow burn processes. • Categorisation of recourse options to provide strategies for an integrated energy system. • Clarification of trade-offs between resilience levels and system costs. • Policy recommendations aiming to integrate disturbances into energy system planning.
Source: Energy Policy
Language: English
Subfield: General Energy
Field: Energy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,940
Awards: Verbundvorhaben: REWARDS - Robuste Entwicklung des Energiesystems zur Wahrung der Energiesicherheit, Teilvorhaben: Quantifizierung von Risiken für die Energiesicherheit und Entwicklung und Anwendung von multikriteriellen Bewertungsmetriken, Verbundvorhaben: REWARDS - Robuste Entwicklung des Energiesystems zur Wahrung der Energiesicherheit, Teilvorhaben: Open-Source-Methoden für die robuste Entwicklung des Energiesystems zur Wahrung der Energiesouveränität und Resilienz, Verbundvorhaben: REWARDS - Robuste Entwicklung des Energiesystems zur Wahrung der Energiesicherheit, Teilvorhaben: Entwicklung & Bereitstellung von strukturierenden Methoden zur Szenarienentwicklung für die robuste Entwicklung des Energiesystems zur Wahrung der Energiesouveränität und Resilienz, Verbundvorhaben: REWARDS - Robuste Entwicklung des Energiesystems zur Wahrung der Energiesicherheit, Teilvorhaben: Herleitung und Implementierung neuer Modellrestriktionen sowie Simulationen in EMPRISE zur Abbildung von Energiesouveränität und Resilienz
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