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Secure our Future: Towards a European Energy Strategy
Author(s) -
Oettinger Günther H.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12150
Subject(s) - economic shortage , electricity , energy (signal processing) , energy strategy , business , natural resource economics , energy security , environmental economics , economics , energy policy , engineering , renewable energy , government (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , electrical engineering
Energy is the lifeblood of our society. Our way of life is inconceivable without reliable and affordable supplies of energy: electricity, heat and fuel. Never before has the world needed so much energy: we use almost twice as much as we did in 1980. If this trend continues, it will be difficult to avoid a major energy crisis, with electricity cuts, petrol or gas shortages.