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This 2013 edition of the Institute for 21st Century Energy’s (Energy Institute) Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk (Index), the fourth in the annual series, provides an updated look at U.S. energy security since the 2012 edition was issued in October 2012 and incorporates the most recent historical data and reflecting the latest and updated forecasts. The Index incorporates 37 different measures of energy security risk that include: global fuels; fuel imports; energy expenditures; price and market volatility; energy use intensity; electric power sector; transportation sector; environmental; and basic science and energy research & development.1 The Index looks back in …
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Last year’s inaugural edition of the Institute for 21st Century Energy’s International Index of Energy Security Risk was the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the energy security risks confronting the United States and 24 other large energy consuming countries from 1980 to 2010. This second edition incorporates the addition of a new metric, methodological improvements, and revised data through 2012 to provide a more relevant and timely picture of these risks.…
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In the past few years, we have seen significant breaches in cybersecurity which could affect critical U.S. infrastructure. Data on the nation’s weakest dams, including those which could kill Americans if they failed, were stolen by a malicious intruder. Nuclear plants’ confidential cybersecurity plans have been left unprotected. Blueprints for the technology undergirding the New York Stock Exchange were exposed to hackers. Examples like those underscore for many the importance of increased federal involvement in protecting the nation’s privately – owned critical infrastructure. But for one thing: Those failures aren’t due to poor practices by the private sector. All of …
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This report investigates the ongoing shale boom in the United States and its implications for U.S. energy and national security. To date, the debate about the energy boom has been oversimplified. Some people argue that the boom will make the United States self-sufficient in energy, permit- ting the nation to retreat from its commitments overseas. Other analysts argue that nothing has changed and that the United States remains dangerously vulnerable to global energy-market dynamics. The reality is more complex: The energy boom will have profound implications on energy markets and political relationships between major consumers and producers. Furthermore, energy security …
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Energy security has climbed the list of EU energy and foreign policy priorities in the last decade. This process was accelerated by the shock of the 2006 and 2009 disruptions in Russian gas supply through Ukraine, and by the new possibilities offered by the Lisbon Treaty. Efforts have been directed at interconnecting national gas and electricity markets, diversifying energy suppliers and promoting rules-based energy trade in the wider European neighbourhood. The EU’s primary energy security goals are to reduce the strategic dependence of individual member states on single external suppliers and to ensure that energy markets are liquid, open and …
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