Transatlantic Energy Futures

Strategic Perspectives on Energy Security, Climate Change and New Technologies in Europe and the United States

David Koranyi, Editor

How can Europe and the United States grapple with the energy questions of today and tomorrow? What drives energy policy decisions in Washington and in the capitals of U.S. states, in Brussels and in European countries? What will define their energy mixes in the future? What are the similarities and differences, convergences and divergences among the various energy sectors in Europe and the United States? What shoud be done to facilitate transatlantic cooperation in the field of energy from a political, diplomatic, institutional, commercial, regulatory and financial perspective? Is a transatlantic energy alliance desirable? Is it possible? What could be the goals, scope, shape and influence of such an alliance?

Remarks by Jonathan Elkind, U.S. Department of Energy, SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, December 8, 2011.

Contributing authors include:

Reinis Aboltins
Kornel Andzsans-Balogh
Pal Belenyesi
Mihaela Carstei
Andras Deak
Nikolas Foster
Tamas Kenessey
Maximilian Kuhn
Taras Kuzio
Mark Olsthoorn
Michael Stanton-Geddes
Frank Umbach
Kirsten Westphal

Read the book here.

Chapter 1: Energy in an Era of Unprecedented Uncertainty: International Energy Governance in the face of Macroeconomic, Geopolitical, and Systemic Challenges

Chapter 2: Climate Change and the Future of Clean Energy: Towards Transatlantic Convergence

Chapter 3: The European Carbon Trading System after 2012— Implications to the U.S.

Chapter 4: Innovation in the Energy Economy: An Imperative for Transatlantic Cooperation

Chapter 5: To Begin the World Anew: Smart Grids and the Need for a Comprehensive U.S. Energy Policy

Chapter 6: The Future of Renewable Energy

Chapter 7: Trading the Sun

Chapter 8: Transatlantic Cooperation for a Competitive and Sustainable Biofuel Industry

Chapter 9: After Fukushima: The Future of Nuclear Energy in the United States and Europe

Chapter 10: Unconventional Gas Resources: A Transatlantic Shale Alliance?

Chapter 11: What are the Security Challenges of the Natural Gas Golden Age? Natural Gas Security in the U.S. and Europe