The Essential Energy and Climate Podcast

Ep. 1 - Energy Supply Security During the Pandemic

Episode Summary

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...

Episode Notes

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/