Episode 1 - A medium-rare discussion of energy security and the different factors that are coming into play in the current energy landscape. Featuring my mom (who better to cheer me on for my first episode???) as she name drops my energy industry cousins, and a long awkward silence after I tell her that fr*cking is the reason power sector emissions have gone down...
Stuff I got wrong but was too lazy to re-record:
Finally, the sources I consulted for this episode (and other interesting reading) can be found below:
https://www.cisa.gov/energy-sector
solar supply chain: https://www.bgafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Solar-Overview-for-BGA-Final-Jan-2011.pdf
oil and gas supply chain: https://www.dhl.com/content/dam/downloads/g0/logistics/white_papers/DHL_Smarter_Energy_Supply-Chain_Whitepaper_2014.pdf
defining energy security: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512002029#s0030
Russia Saudi arabia oil price conflict: https://fortune.com/2020/03/17/saudi-arabia-russia-oil-price-war-death-opec/
https://fortune.com/2020/03/12/saudi-arabia-punish-russia-oil-price-war/
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/opec-talks-collapse-threatening-russia-saudi-oil-alliance
US energy security at risk: https://www.rep-am.com/opinion/editorials/2020/04/03/u-s-energy-security-at-risk/#login
EIA’s short term energy outlook: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/special/summer/2020_summer_fuels.pdf
A quantitative method for energy security assessment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544214010482
Solar panel manufacturing production by country: https://www.statista.com/statistics/668749/regional-distribution-of-solar-pv-module-manufacturing/