European energy policy pursues the objective of a sustainable, competitive and reliable supply of energy. In 2007, the European Commission adopted a proper energy policy for Europe supported by several documents and included an action plan to meet the major energy challenges Europe has to face. A farsighted diversified yearly mix of energies was suggested to countries, aiming at increasing security of supply and efficiency, but a wide and systemic view of energy interchanges between states was missing. In this paper, a Small-World methodology of analysis of Interchange Energy-Networks (IENs) is presented, with the aim of providing a useful tool for planning sustainable energy policies. A proof case is presented to validate the methodology by considering the European IEN behaviour in the period of economical crisis. This network is approached as a Small World Net from a modelling point of view, by supposing that connections between States are characterised by a probability value depending on economic/political relations between countries.

A Small-World Methodology of Analysis of Interchange Energy-Networks: the European behaviour in the economical crisis / Dassisti, Michele; Carnimeo, Leonarda. - In: ENERGY POLICY. - ISSN 0301-4215. - 63:(2013), pp. 887-899. [10.1016/j.enpol.2013.09.015]

A Small-World Methodology of Analysis of Interchange Energy-Networks: the European behaviour in the economical crisis

DASSISTI, Michele;CARNIMEO, Leonarda
2013-01-01

Abstract

European energy policy pursues the objective of a sustainable, competitive and reliable supply of energy. In 2007, the European Commission adopted a proper energy policy for Europe supported by several documents and included an action plan to meet the major energy challenges Europe has to face. A farsighted diversified yearly mix of energies was suggested to countries, aiming at increasing security of supply and efficiency, but a wide and systemic view of energy interchanges between states was missing. In this paper, a Small-World methodology of analysis of Interchange Energy-Networks (IENs) is presented, with the aim of providing a useful tool for planning sustainable energy policies. A proof case is presented to validate the methodology by considering the European IEN behaviour in the period of economical crisis. This network is approached as a Small World Net from a modelling point of view, by supposing that connections between States are characterised by a probability value depending on economic/political relations between countries.
2013
A Small-World Methodology of Analysis of Interchange Energy-Networks: the European behaviour in the economical crisis / Dassisti, Michele; Carnimeo, Leonarda. - In: ENERGY POLICY. - ISSN 0301-4215. - 63:(2013), pp. 887-899. [10.1016/j.enpol.2013.09.015]
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