Solidarity measures: Assessment of strategic gas storage on EU regional risk groups natural gas supply resilience
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Author(s)
Sesini, Marzia
Giarola, Sara
Hawkes, Adam D
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper focuses on strategic storage as a solidarity measure in response to short-term “high-impact, low-probability” (HILP) disruptions in the European Union (EU) gas supply from major suppliers (i.e., Ukraine, Russia, Norway, and North Africa), assuming its implementation in selected Member States. A two-stage stochastic cost minimization gas transport model is used to evaluate the impact of HILP events on the level of demand curtailment, survival time, and the natural gas supply mix of EU regional risk group. Results show that geographic proximity alone, without solidarity measures, is inadequate in providing system resilience. In contrast, solidarity measures lead to a longer survival time for regional risk groups (14 days) and to a reduction in system (15%) and LNG (70%) costs relative to a base scenario with no strategic storage. The analysis stresses the value of the coordinated use of strategic storage in balancing the natural gas network during emergencies, and provides further evidence supporting the EU legislative path towards an Energy Union.
Date Issued
2022-02
Date Acceptance
2021-12-05
Citation
Applied Energy, 2022, 308, pp.1-15
ISSN
0306-2619
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
1
End Page
15
Journal / Book Title
Applied Energy
Volume
308
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Shell Global Solutions International BV
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261921016020?via%3Dihub
Grant Number
NE/N018656/1
EP/R045518/1
PO: 4550182471 (Agr.N.PT77776)
Subjects
Energy
09 Engineering
14 Economics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
118356
Date Publish Online
2021-12-09