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SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Specific Support Action - FP6-2002-INCO-COMultilatRTD/SSA-5
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EU-BSEC Energy and Climate Policy Network
International Black Sea Energy Policy Conference
“Energy Investments and Trade Opportunities”
Ph.D. Anca Popescu
KEPA GPOGC
BSREC
Institute for Studies and Power Engineering
IPE
ISPE
ESEMI
Athens - October 9,2008
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International Black Sea Energy Policy Conference
“Energy Investments and Trade Opportunities”
“Vulnerability of European Energy Users
to an Energy Crisis”
Ph.D. Anca Popescu – ISPE Bucharest
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Introduction (1)
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Energy security is a primary key issue initially arose out of worries
about the physical security of energy supplies.
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Now, concern is focused on the economic conditions affecting those
supplies.
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Energy security needs to be analyzed globally, to ensure adequacy
of resources, regionally to ensure networking and trade take place,
at the country level, to ensure national security and finally at the
consumer level, to ensure that consumer demand can be satisfied.
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The diversity of current available energy resources would likely
remove a number of the risks that access to energy might be
seriously disrupted.
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Introduction (2)
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There are several types of risk that could endanger the
security of energy supply.
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European Commission in “Green Paper – Towards a
European strategy for the security of supply” in 2000 are
identified as hurdles to security of supply the following
risks:
- physical;
- economic;
- social;
- environmental.
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Introduction (3)
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European Commission underlined that “Energy supply must
be geared to ensuring the proper functioning of the economy,
the uninterrupted physical availability at a price which is
affordable while respecting environmental concern. Security of
supply does not seek to maximize energy self-sufficiency or to
minimize dependence, but aims to reduce the risks linked to
such dependence”.
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The European Commission follows long-term security in
Europe because this security is associated with long-term
adequacy of supply, the infrastructure for delivering this supply
to markets and a framework to create strategic security
against major risks.
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Introduction (4)
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Vulnerability of energy system is the degree to which that system is unable
to cope with selected adverse events.
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The vulnerability is defined in the following context:
- the increased needs of imported energy to Europe;
- the increase of energy prices over the recent year due to unstable
political climate in the major suppliers countries and/or the
substantial energy demand growth in emerging economies;
- the uncertainty about full implications of the market liberalization
regarding to security of supply.
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In this context energy security means:
- limited vulnerability to transient or longer disruption of supply;
- the availability of local and imported resources to meet over time
and at the reasonable prices, the growing demand for energy.
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Introduction (5)
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For establishing the vulnerability of European energy users to an energy
crisis it is important to analyze the structure of European economy and
to determine how energy resources and prices influence consumer
choices and behavior and affect economic development and growth.
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Economic growth of European countries reflects the long established
trend of structural changes.
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Contribution by various branches of the economy to gross domestic
product (GDP) shows the impact of restructuring, modernization and
adaptation to the domestic and world market pressures.
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The share of industrial value added in European economy declines
indicating the increasing importance of new industrial activities with high
value added, lower material base and the increase of services value
added share in economy up to 70 - 71% in 2030.
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European steel industry (1)
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A large producer of steel covering about 20% of global
production but the subsector’s significance for European
economy is less than 1% of GDP.
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Its restructuring was characterized by a reduction of excess
capacity by closing less competitive and older basic processing
plants and shifting in favour of electric steelworks
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Ultimate, advances in material productivity and substitutions in
favour of new material will lead to the total separation of
economic growth and the steel production.
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European steel industry (2)
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For European countries as a whole, the proportion of electric arc
furnace steel production will account for about 56% in 2020,
compared to 32% in 1995.
Figure 1. The changing pattern of steel in European countries, 1995 - 2020
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European steel industry (3)
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The fuel structure of the energy demand of the sector will be effectively
determined by the sharp increase in the share of electric processing.
Thus the continuous decline in solid fuels demand will be compensated
by the increase in electricity demand.
Figure 2. The structure of energy demand in iron and steel sector
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Building material sector
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This sector is related directly to construction and its size varies between 0.4-2.5%
of GDP from different European countries.
The basic processing for building material is very energy intensive. For this
reason significant improvements are expected to occur in efficiency after 2010
when new technologies will be mature.
Average growth of overall energy demand in the period 1995 - 2020 will be limited
to about 0.6%. In this period while the use of solid fuels will decline significantly,
the increase in the share of electricity will be limited.
Figure 3. The structure of energy demand in building material sector
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Chemical industry (1)
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This industry is of strategic importance for Europe and a driver of economic
growth. Sector size varies between 0.9-6% of GDP in different European
countries.
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The overall output of this sector is expected to grow roughly in line with GDP in
the long term. The restructuring of the sector is expected to continue especially in
basic petrochemicals.
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Production of high value added and low energy intensive commodities mainly
addressed to final consumers (cosmetics, paints, etc.) is projected to double
between 1995 and 2020 which will lead to a significant reduction in the overall
energy intensity of the sector.
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The imposition of carbon taxes or other severe environmental measures taken by
Europe leads to an increase in the proportion of recycling and to greater efforts at
energy saving.
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Chemical industry (2)
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The use of solid and liquid fuels is already very limited in the chemical sector
because of the technologies used and the numerous by-products available as
energy sources.
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The sector relies for more than 80% of its energy needs on steam and electricity.
Figure 4. The structure of energy demand in chemical sector
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Pulp and paper sector
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This sector account about 2% of European GDP and alters between 0.9-5.2% of
GDP for different countries.
Over a longer term, the industry is expected to grow by about 2% in the period
1995 – 2020.
In terms of fuel shares, no significant changes are projected to occur in the
period 1995 - 2020 because the energy technologies and economics of the
sector make it dependent of electricity and steam.
Figure 5. The structure of energy demand in pulp and paper sector
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Other industries sector
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Includes most of the industries with high value added and fast growth
rates such as electronics, engineering, aerospace, etc.and accounts
more 21% of European GDP.
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Energy demand in the sector is a reflection of the faster improvement in
energy efficiency after 2010.
Figure 6. The structure of energy demand in other industries sector
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Tertiary sector (services and agriculture)
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Is the fastest growing sector of the economy.
The bulk of energy use in the sector is required for heating and cooling
purposes. Of crucial importance is the increasing use of office electrical
equipment (computers, printers, telecommunication systems, etc.)
which generate much of the increase in the sector’s productivity.
Electricity is projected to continue to grow faster than overall sectoral
energy consumption due to the continued penetration of electricity in
space heating and cooling and to the increase in the number and variety
of electrical appliances.
Steam is expected to continue to make inroads into this sector due to
the changing market structure and technological developments helping
the penetration of advanced technologies
Natural gas consumption grew at 4.7% pa between 1990 - 2000. It is
projected to decelerate to levels below average in long run.
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Transportation sector (1)
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Is one of the most important sector from the point of view of energy
consumption and environmental implications.
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This sector has been the fastest growing final energy demand and has
proved to be quite resistant to a number of measures taken to reduce
consumption, including extremely high consumer taxation.
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Almost total dependence of the sector on oil products generates two
main concerns:
 security of oil supplies taking into consideration the increasing
needs of the sector;
 worries about climate changes combined with problems of
congestion, noise and urban pollution.
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Transportation sector (2)
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For transportation energy demand will account for nearly a third of total
energy demand by 2020 in Europe.
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Oil products will continue to account for nearly 98% of total energy use
in the sector, despite the significant growth in electricity use for rail
transportation.
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The implementation of the 1998 voluntary agreement between the auto
manufacturing industry and the EU Commission could have a significant
impact on European oil demand and emissions by 2010.
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Households sector
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Energy demand in households is expected to grow very modestly over
the next 30 years because of:
 the relatively stable population;
 changes in behavioral patterns;
 improved insulation standards in new buildings;
 saturation effects for some energy uses;
 energy efficiency gains.
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The main reasons for a faster growth in electricity demand could be:
 the high penetration of air conditioning (especially in the southern
EU countries);
 the greater number of electrical appliances per household.
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Increased prices for energy resources
and electricity (1)
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An increase in the world fuel price leads to an increase in import prices
with three major effects:
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a direct effect on revenue by spending more on the energy bill;
a financial effect through the rise of inflation and interest rates;
a trade effect through the increase in import bill which worsens the
trade balance.
Energy prices are one key driver for the development of EU-29 energy
demand. Higher energy prices determine the reduced competitiveness
for EU-29 industries in the global market.
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Increased prices for energy resources
and electricity (2)
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The projected shifts in primary energy needs of European 29 countries energy
system towards the greater use of solid fuels, renewable energy forms and
nuclear power can assure the significant improvements as regards import
dependency.
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The tertiary and domestic sectors are the most responsive to price changes,
whereas both industry and transport sectors exhibit a limited reaction to price
increase.
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In industry the shift towards the use of electricity and steam usually occurs
because structural changes in power generation leads to absorption of additional
costs imposed on the energy system as a result of higher fuel prices.
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The transport sector is the least responsive on the demand side in case of the
highest price for fuels. Transport sector is vulnerable at higher oil prices or at lack
of oil.
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Conclusions
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Energy users in Europe are vulnerable at the energy crisis. The degree
of vulnerability depends on various factors as energy intensity, flexibility
in terms of changing its fuel mix, the ability to anticipate an energy
crisis. So the industry is perhaps better prepared than transportation for
an energy crisis in terms of its structure of supply.
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Energy prices are one key driver for the development of energy demand
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In Europe energy systems react to higher energy prices:
 by increasing costs both on the demand and supply sides;
 by changes in the fuel mix;
 by improving energy intensity.
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Thank you for your attention!
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Contact
Ph.D. ANCA POPESCU
Institute for Studies and Power Engineering (ISPE)
Power Systems Division
1-3 Lacul Tei Blvd.
020371 Bucureşti
Romania
ph. + 4021 2103481
fax. + 4021 2103481
email: [email protected]
www.ispe.ro
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