Making Electricity Resilient

Risk and Security in a Liberalized Infrastructure
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-17923-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Energy Policy

Energy risk and security have become topical matters in Western and international policy discussions; ranging from international climate change mitigation to investment in energy infrastructures to support economic growth and more sustainable energy provisions. As such, ensuring the resilience of more sustainable energy infrastructures against disruptions has become a growing concern for high-level policy makers.

Drawing on interviews, participant observation, policy analysis, and survey research, this book unpacks the work of the authorities, electricity companies, and lay persons that keeps energy systems from failing and helps them to recover from disruptions if they occur. The book explores a number of important issues: the historical security policy of energy infrastructures; control rooms where electricity is traded and maintained in real time; and electricity consumers in their homes. Presenting case studies from Finland and Scandinavia, with comparisons to the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union at large, Making Electricity Resilient offers a detailed and innovative analysis of long-term priorities and short-term dynamics in energy risk and resilience.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy policy and security, and science and technology studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silvast, Antti

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Overview

Chapter 1. Infrastructure, Risk, and Resilience

Part II: Things We Need: The Emergence of Infrastructural Crisis Preparedness

Chapter 2. Emerging Infrastructures in Economic Military Defence

Chapter 3. Towards Critical Infrastructure and Vital Systems Protection

Part III: Competition and Security in a Liberalised Electricity Market

Chapter 4. Materialising Electricity Markets

Chapter 5. Monitor Screens of Market Risks on an Electricity Trading Floor

Chapter 6. Enacting Markets and Security in Neighbouring Electricity Control Rooms

Part IV: Lay People, Experts, and Electric Power Failures

Chapter 7. Everyday Habits as a Risk Response

Part V: Conclusions

Chapter 8. Understanding Infrastructure through Risk and Resilience

Über Autor(innen)

Antti Silvast is a Scottish ClimateXChange Research Fellow on European Energy Policy and Markets at the University of Edinburgh, UK.