Overview: This article focuses on problems emerging from climatic changes, caused primarily by climatic warming and changes in precipitation regime in the upper watersheds, for existing and projected downstream hydro dams and power plants in the tropics and subtropics.

Overview: Rare earth elements (REE) are key enablers for the ongoing energy and environmental transition as they are critical raw materials in many low-carbon technologies. Electric vehicles, batteries, solar photovoltaic systems, wind turbines and hydrogen technologies all require significantly more metals than their conventional alternatives to replace fossil fuel needs. Although the REE are often referred to as single group, in practice each individual element has a specific set of end-uses, and so demand varies between them. The current global rare earth supply chain is highly imbalanced and tightly controlled by just a few countries. Such an imbalance of the critical metals supply poses a significant challenge to the energy transition strategies and national security of many countries. Ukraine has long been referred to as “breadbasket of Europe”, this country has great potential to become the “minerals superpower in Europe” and a significant supplier of more than 20 elements from the list of critical raw materials.

Overview: This paper focuses on the complexities of decarbonizing military mobility and investigates the viability of e-fuels in facilitating this energy transition. Through a comparative analysis of various e-fuel production processes, the study evaluates their applicability in the land, sea, and air military domains. Emphasizing performance, logistics, integration, and safety, the research assesses different technological pathways to provide insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with adopting e-fuels for sustainable military operations.

Overview: The analysis is structured along the lines of DOTMLPFI (Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership, Personnel, Facilities and Interoperability) framework which provides necessary analytical tools for identifying gaps within NATO’s approach to energy along its entire spectrum. The report consists of three parts. The first chapter briefly introduces the emergence of energy-related issues on NATO’s political agenda and highlights how they have changed over time. The second part provides a short overview of DOTMLPFI research framework and advantages of its application, while the final section scrutinises the institutionalisation of energy within NATO across the DOTMLPFI spectrum.

Overview: The purpose of this handbook is to present an extended evaluation, analysis, presentation of standards and correlations in the field of cyber / physical security of critical energy infrastructures. Publication prepared by Tomas Pleta, former NATO ENSEC COE Doctrine and Concept Development Division (DCDD) Fellow, under the supervision of former DCDD Subject Matter Expert Ana Gogoreliani.

Overview: There is no doubt that adversaries and terrorists consistently strive to develop novel methods and technologies to execute attacks on maritime critical energy infrastructures. As the threat of Maritime IEDs advances in complexity and lethality, collective NATO investments in innovative surveillance solutions and coordination between nations are needed to thwart or minimize the impacts of such attacks.

Discover more in our latest publication by CDR H. Ceyhun TURE, which thoroughly examines the risks and consequences associated with Maritime IED threat to Energy Security.

Overview: The aim of this study is to get further insight into climate change impacts on the military activities (infrastructure, installations and equipment) and its coping techniques. A special attention is paid on the decarbonizing potential of the defence forces, which is an important task after setting up the military emissions accounting and reporting system. The research objectives are to answer the following questions: (1) How significant are the climate change concerns for different branches of the military? (2) How viable are the proposed solutions to decarbonize the defence sector and what are the main challenges? (3) What is required to map the carbon emissions and what data is to be collected to get a better view of the carbon emissions trajectory?

Overview: This is a first impression report from the combined conference and exhibition - InterSolar North America and Energy Storage North America 2023. This event is one of the most essential ones in North America, if it comes to renewable energy in general and to usage of solar energy in particular.

Overview: Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia’s aim has been to make gas supply to Europe as unpredictable as possible and thus undermine economic confidence and EU resolve on sanctions. At the end of July, 2022, Russia reduced gas flows to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to 20% capacity. Further restrictions in supply are likely (e.g. transporting gas via Ukraine to Europe), injecting great uncertainty into the outlook of the region. Efforts to replace Russian gas with other pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) have yielded some results, but cannot go much further in the short term given the limited availability of global LNG supplies and regional regasification terminals.