Sustainability boosts energy security – WEC
Boosting the sustainability of energy systems goes hand-in-hand with improving energy security and equity, according to a World Energy Council and Oliver Wyman report
The global energy system can be made more environmentally sustainable while simultaneously improving energy security, defined by the diversification of sources, and energy equity across nations’ populations, according to research launched yesterday. The 2020 World Energy Trilemma Index, created by the World Energy Council (WEC), a network of energy leaders and practitioners, in partnership with consultancy Oliver Wyman, was launched at the WEC’s World Energy Week virtual event. Improving the sustainability of energy systems is often seen as a cost to the host country, or trade-off with other factors. “The Trilemma Index actually tends to illustrate that the opposite is true,” says Martin You
Also in this section
16 April 2024
US and European oil majors snap up smaller players and look to accelerate development in a region deemed to possess all the key elements for successful CCUS deployment
15 April 2024
Demand for credits seen rising 20% this year despite issues around integrity and standardisation
11 April 2024
Volatile allowance prices and small size of voluntary market undermine ability to drive investment, says Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
8 April 2024
Chevron New Energies is lead investor in funding round by Colorado-based provider of post-combustion capture technology