5 spunti per approfondire (23/2024)

La rubrica settimanale con i consigli di lettura di RivistaEnergia.it, dall’Europa e dal mondo. Settimana 23/2024

People don’t want coal, oil or gas. Rather they want the products and services that the energy provides — home heating, public transport or sheets of steel. The distinction is important as we move away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy, because it will mean the world could be consuming less energy in total without losing out the benefits it currently enjoys. We waste about a third of the total energy produced on mining, refining and transporting fossil fuels. Crude oil on its own isn’t much use until it is converted to gasoline, jet fuel and fuel oil. But creating those products requires huge refineries consuming vast amounts of energy. Crucially, all that dirty energy has a huge planet-warming impact. Producing solar panels and wind turbines has a much smaller carbon footprint.

Moving to Renewables Will Mean Using Less Energy Overall
Articolo – Bloomberg

“High energy prices and ambitious energy transition goals have taken center stage in European politics. An expected swing to the right in June’s European Parliament elections has already sparked heated debates on EU climate policy. Right-of-center MEPs want to slow down the EU’s front-running on the Green Deal, with cost-of-living warnings about the proposed 2040 targets playing well with voters.”

Infographic: EU elections – Climate policies face populist backlash
Articolo – S&P Global Platts

“Oil and gas prospects identified off South Korea’s east coast hold “great potential”, a founder of the petroleum exploration research firm advising the government said on Friday. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced on Monday the discovery of the prospects at the site off the coastal city of Pohang, which he said could contain as much as 14 billion barrels of oil and gas, and authorised drilling to prove up resources.”

South Korea east coast energy prospects hold ‘great potential’, adviser says
Articolo – Reuters

“Price volatility for minerals and metals required for the clean energy transition—including cobalt, nickel, and lithium—has become a significant deterrent to private sector mining investment. In March 2024, the S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Pipeline Activity Index—a single score that gauges the activity level in the commodity supply chain, factoring in drill results, initial resource announcements, financing, and positive project development milestones—dropped 30 percent, from 88 to 61—the lowest since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic four years ago.”

Drivers of Base Metals Price Volatility
Articolo – CSIS

“This chapter introduces the discursive characteristics of Polish populist political communication in order to provide a thematic and discourse analysis of a sample of governmental communications on Poland’s energy policy in 2019–2022. The sources analyzed include official statements from the Office of the Prime Minister, Ministries of State Assets and Climate and Environment, as well as the governmental portal “Polish Atom.” The thematic analysis shows how the overall discourse on energy policy has been “securitized” and colonized by the themes of economic development, protecting the state and its people, and aligning with EU policy. By tracing keywords and collocations, as well as the dominant expressions of sentiment, the study shows how the terminology of “energy security” is also used by populist politicians to stir anxiety among the voters and then to position themselves as their protectors, or the only ones to truly understand Polish interests. As with other issues represented as threats to security, energy discourse can be used strategically by populists for political gain.”

The Discourse of “Energy Security” in Populist Politics and Policymaking in Poland
Capitolo – Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics

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