Leverage demand-side policies for energy security
成果类型：
Editorial Material
署名作者：
Bento, Nuno; Grubler, Arnulf; Boza-Kiss, Benigna; De Stercke, Simon; Krey, Volker; Mccollum, David L.; Zimm, Caroline; Alves, Tiago
署名单位：
Instituto Universitario de Lisboa; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Imperial College London; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); United States Department of Energy (DOE); Oak Ridge National Laboratory; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
刊物名称：
SCIENCE
ISSN/ISSBN：
0036-11224
DOI：
10.1126/science.adj6150
发表日期：
2024-03-01
页码：
946-949
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摘要：
Energy security is a top priority for governments, companies, and households because energy systems and the critical functions that they support are threatened by disruptions from wars, pandemics, climate change, and other shocks ( 1 ). More often than not, governments rely on policies focused on energy supply to enhance energy security while generally ignoring demand-side possibilities. Further, the indicators traditionally used to measure energy security are also tilted toward the supply side; this fails to capture the full spectrum of vulnerability to energy crises. Energy security assessments need to reflect the wider benefits of security-related interventions more accurately. To that end, we develop a systematic approach to measuring the energy security impacts of policy interventions that explicitly considers energy demand (buildings, transport, and industry). We determine that demand-side actions outperform conventional supply-side approaches at making countries more resilient.