The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region: Security, Equity and the Environment (Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies)

The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region provides insight into the energy trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region.

Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region has undergone significant transformation in the last number of years. Energy actors in the region are struggling to reconcile new questions of energy security following the COVID-19 pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine with net-zero objectives and a cost-of-living crisis. Balancing these concerns is essential to resolving the “energy trilemma”: the dilemma that emerges for policy-makers and regulators seeking to balance energy security, equity, and environmental concerns in pursuit of a wholly sustainable energy system. This volume draws together a range of perspectives from scholars of the Baltic Sea Region seeking to understand the manifestations and impact of these systemic regional changes. In considering previously underexamined studies on the energy trilemma and in providing new perspectives by framing the trilemma in times of crisis, this book provides new conceptual and empirical insight into a rapidly changing energy region at the heart of both European energy policy and the current energy crisis.

This Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy politics, energy law and policy, energy transitions, and Baltic studies more broadly.

Michael Kalis is a senior researcher at the Energy Transition Cluster at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research, University of Greifswald. He is also head of the department of the Research Academy at the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM) and deputy scientific director.