Les évolutions du modèle énergétique britannique face aux enjeux géopolitiques internes

• Main Author: Mark Bailoni
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2014-12-01
• Series: VertigO
• Subjects: energy; shale gas; nuclear power; wind power; environmental conflicts; geopolitics issues
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/15550

The United Kingdom should reform its energy model, to prepare for the depletion of natural resources and to meet environmental issues. Since the early 2000s, successive governments have initiated several strategies: development of renewable energies, nuclear revival and process towards the exploitation of shale gas. In addition to contradictions and shifts in the political approach, developments in the UK energy model are confronted with internal geopolitical issues. Indeed, the energy infrastructure projects almost always cause conflicts, now a classic phenomenon in planning process. However, energy issues also exacerbate tensions and rivalries between territories. They thus reveal specific identity, social and political divides in the United Kingdom, a multinational State. The transition to another energy model appears even more complex it is confronted with both technical and financial aspects, but also with these internal geopolitical issues.