Special Issue "The Issues of the Energy Supply and Demand in the Socio-Economic Development and Reorganization of Military Security Structures"
Dear colleagues,
Together with Ph.d. Anna Kucharska we are the editors of special issue referred to energy security. The scope of our interests cover the New Green Deal of the European Union which generates changes to the energy security landscape that we visualise up to 2050. European assumptions are based on shifting the burden of production to renewable energy sources and aim for net zero greenhouse gas emissions in 2050. This is accompanied by continued global population growth. This all generates new challenges in the following areas:
(1) stabilizing the mismatch between supply and demand – in this context, the energy production, distribution and storage become essential for the functioning at the micro and macro level; among the available solutions, hydrogen technologies are gaining popularity as they offer a stable source of energy production with high energy density per mass, as well as a attractive solution for energy storage, but it can also be a clean energy source, which is in line with the goals of the New Green Deal;
(2) changes in the socio-economic development of regions – we observe a transformation of regional energy portfolio profiles in connection with the increasing availability of modern innovative technologies to support the development of regional environmental and economic potentials; we note that these processes will result in the formation of a new energy market value chain and a change in the business models; at this point, special attention is paid to the inclusion of new stakeholders, such as local governments and agricultural producers, who are faced with the need to invest in innovative energy source technologies due to the changing conditions;
(3) reorganization of military security structures in the energy supply chain – population growth directly connects with an increase in new risks; also, the availability of innovative technologies increases the level and quality of possible threats; under these conditions, uninterrupted chain of energy supplies to military, especially in the battlefield, become more risky and complex than ever before; meeting future energy demand in the armed forces will be a key challenge, not only for military security, which opens the way to civil applications of military technologies; and here again hydrogen offers a promising solutions in stable energy supplies. Assuming such defined directions of changes in energy structures based on the EU’s New Green Deal, we would like to invite the publication of articles on those topics that clearly arise from the energy transition and that are characterized by perceived untapped socio-economic potential.