This issue explores how energy supply and delivery to the military may evolve over time, with particular emphasis on the changing nature of supply-chain resilience in an increasingly complex and contested environment.
It examines the value and viability of energy-independent deployable military camps, assessing how new energy architectures, technologies, and operational concepts can enhance autonomy, reduce logistical burdens, and strengthen resilience across different climates and mission profiles. The issue also analyses the evolution of digitalised and interconnected energy systems, highlighting both the opportunities they offer for efficiency and flexibility and the new systemic and cyber risks they introduce. Established and emerging technologies for transforming ocean energy into electricity are assessed for their long-term strategic potential as part of a diversified and resilient energy mix. In addition, the increasingly blurred responsibilities for the protection of energy infrastructure are explored, particularly where civil, military, public, and private actors intersect.
Finally, Issue 21 highlights key NATO ENSEC COE initiatives, including the development of tools to track energy technologies across the Alliance, the flagship conference on energy and defence held in Vilnius, and the development of modelling capabilities to support decision-making on the integration of alternative fuels into military supply chains.
Papers and Authors:
- Energy Independent and Efficient Deployable Military Camps
- Bernard Thonon as corresponding author for Project INDY
- Highly Decentralized and Intelligent Power Systems – Risks and Opportunities for Energy Security
- Enrique Kremers
- Ocean Power Generating Technologies – A Vast Renewable Energy Potential
- Jutta Lauf, Reiner Zimmermann, Wsewolod Rusow
- Blurred Lines: The Role of Security and Non-Security Actors in the Energy Landscape
- Marie Becker, Michael Kalis
- The Energy Innovation and Technology Tracker (EITT) – A Flashlight in the Complex Energy Innovation Landscape
- Marlen Rein
- Future Operations – Resilience in Transitioning Energy: Power in Partnership: Civil-Military Synergy for Energy Security
- Kristina Rimkūnaitė
- Modelling Liquid Fuel Futures for Defence: Exploring the Role of Biofuels in European Supply Security with the New Biofuel Calculator
- Ben Cook
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