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This paper lays out key and pressing realities of the contemporary energy system, which must form the basis of energy policymaking for the next administration. In many instances, these realities constitute serious challenges to U.S. prosperity and security and require urgent and sustained action. The paper reviews such challenges at home and abroad and outlines a number of strategies to address them. Additionally, it comments on some of the more intractable energy policy matters, including resource stewardship and approaches to climate change, which national policymakers will inevitably continue to struggle over under the next president.…
View Full ResourceRarely in history has Americans’ perception of the nation’s energy security oscillated as wildly as it has over the past decade. In 2008, amid a historic oil supply crunch and record run-up in global oil prices, U.S. spending on oil reached nearly 6 percent of GDP, a level historically associated with recession.1 The nation, heavily dependent on fuel purchased from overseas, sent a record $388 billion abroad for oil, accounting for well over half of the country’s trade de cit. And with no alternatives to oil in transportation, American households saw their spending on gasoline double in a few short …
View Full ResourceThe U.S. Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct a technical study on lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident for improving safety and security of commercial nuclear power plants1 in the United States. The complete study task is given in Sidebar 1.2 in Chapter 1. This study was carried out in two phases: Phase 1 focused on the causes of the Fukushima Daiichi accident and safety-related lessons learned for improving nuclear plant systems, operations, and regulations exclusive of spent fuel storage.…
View Full ResourceThe national energy system of the United States is aging and has to be renewed in a dynamic fashion to adapt to the transformative changes in the world of energy. Failure to do so will result in substantial economic disadvantage and national security vulnerabilities, and risk the United States’ position as the leading global power in the twenty first century. The need for modernization represents a unique opportunity to upgrade the United States to a cutting edge system of energy hardware and software.
Moreover, climate change is a severe threat to the United States and an existential one to much …
View Full ResourceU.S. energy markets started 2016 with good news. The 40-year-old oil-export ban, which long has hamstrung one of the world’s leading oil-and-gas producers, is now defunct. As of New Year’s Day, the first tankers of American crude oil left for Europe.
A relic of a bygone era, the ban initially was a response to the economic trauma of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, during which oil prices nearly quadrupled over the course of just six months. The embargo caused a dramatic global economic and security crisis and prompted many of the whiplash measures that were embedded in the Energy Policy …
View Full ResourceU.S. energy markets started 2016 with good news. The 40-year-old oil-export ban, which long has hamstrung one of the world’s leading oil-and-gas producers, is now defunct. As of New Year’s Day, the first tankers of American crude oil left for Europe.…
View Full ResourceThis 2015 edition of the Institute for 21st Century Energy’s (Energy Institute) Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk (Index), the sixth in the annual series, provides an updated look at U.S. energy security incorporating the most recent historical data and reflecting the latest and updated forecasts. The Index employs 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 covers the period from 1970 to 2040. The Energy Institute’s Index includes four …
View Full ResourcePower and utilities organisations face a raft of challenges as a result of evolving business models, distributed generation and increasing demands of connected customers. At the same time, they should safeguard their operational systems from escalating attacks by highly skilled nation-states. To address these challenges, power and utilities companies are implementing cloud-based cybersecurity, Big Data analytics and advanced authentication. Additionally, more organisations share cybersecurity threat intelligence than ever before.…
View Full ResourceThe EU’s move toward a freer energy market and a global shift toward gas by climate-conscious consumers are likely to help fuel growing demand for US liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the coming years, Senior Fellow and former leading CIA analyst Bud Coote writes in Surging Liquefied Natural Gas Trade, How US Exports Will Benefit European and Global Gas Supply Diversity, Competition, and Security.
The European Commission will announce an energy package in February that will consist of various proposals, including one for a US LNG strategy that is likely to reflect a desire for greater supply diversity, competition, and …
View Full ResourceRevolutionary changes are occurring in the global energy landscape, as a wider number of producers and types of energy come into the world market. Most notably, the United States is becoming the world’s largest energy producer; technology is multiplying the output of shale oil and natural gas; renewable energy and nuclear power are the fastest growing sources even if fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix.
At the same time, the carbon content of the earth’s atmosphere continues to build, and more and more countries recognize the need for urgent action to contain climate change. Prospects for an adequate …
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