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Security of supply: Energy security solutions hinder development of sustainable infrastructures

✍ Scribed by Rolf de Vos; John Baken

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
52 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1471-0846

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✦ Synopsis

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ast summer a lot of problems occurred in Western centralised power infrastructures. European power stations suffered from cooling water shortages, Nordic hydro plants suffered from water shortages, while North East America, Italy, Switzerland, London and Sweden suffered from major blackouts.All this brought about a public debate on the future energy policy to protect the current level of power supply. Almost every European parliament raised questions about the security of supply and its relationship with the liberalisation process. The menace of California-like blackouts caused many parties involved in this debate to return to measures that have been successful over the past decades: adding capacity to large-scale power production and transport networks. EU transport and energy commissioner Loyola de Palacio communicated three legislative proposals that also involve measures favouring large-scale power production. A directive on electricity supply and infrastructure, a decision on trans-European energy networks (TENs) and a regulation on access to gas transmission networks.

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