1st Edition
The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region Security, Equity and the Environment
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 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 volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy politics, energy law and policy, energy transitions and Baltic studies more broadly.
Chapter 1: Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region – Security, Equity, and the Environment – Introduction
Michael Kalis, Martina Kolanoski, Marie Becker, and Till Reinholz
Section 1: Approaching the Energy Trilemma
Chapter 2: Energy Trilemma – Concept and Context in the Baltic Sea Region
Michael Kalis
Chapter 3: Normative Guidance in the Energy Trilemma: The role of the law in “solving” the trilemma
Michael Kalis and Michael Rodi
Section 2: Energy Security
Chapter 4: Energy trilemma in times of crisis
The changing sociotechnical imaginaries of nuclear energy in Finland and Poland
Izabela Surwillo and Matti Kojo
Chapter 5: Energy innovation in the Baltic Sea region: trade-offs between sustainability, security, and sovereignty
Thomas Sattich, Stella Huang, Mateusz Stopa
Section 3: Energy equity and justice
Chapter 6: Market rationality and energy justice
Hugo Faber and Simon Birnbaum
Chapter 7: The Relationship Between Energy Equity and Green Colonialism: The Arctic Paradox?
Solveig Marie Wang, Paul Kirschstein, Mary Keogh
Chapter 8: United against LNG across the Atlantic:
Energy Humanities and Environmental Justice in the Baltic Energy Trilemma
Bethany Wiggin
Chapter 9: Exploring the Energy Trilemma in the narratives of Norway’s energy transition
Karina Standal, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Nora Svarstad Ytreberg
Section 4: Environmental Sustainability
Chapter 10: Green, affordable, or secure energy? Energy trilemma in the Latvian strategic narrative after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Chapter 11: Clean, Green, Sustainable? Hydrogen and the energy trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region
Michael Kalis
Beyond Sustainability –
Issues in Contemporary Estonian Environmentalism
Oliver Aas
Conclusion
Unravelling the Gordian knot? The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region in an age of transition – An Epilogue
Michael Kalis
Index
Biography
Michael Kalis is senior researcher at the Energy Transition Cluster at The Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research, University of Greifswald. He is also head of department of the research academy at IKEM - Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility and deputy scientific director.
