Panacea (medicine)

Quantum mechanics

Negotiation

Engineering

Geopolitics

Environmental economics

Economic system

Diplomacy

Energy (signal processing)

Economics

International trade

Neoclassical economics

Waste management

Alternative medicine

Physics

Energy transition

Renewable energy

Politics

Political science

Fossil fuel

Energy security

Medicine

Economy

Natural resource economics

Interdependence

Electrical engineering

Pathology

International Economics

The aim of this article is to analyze the geopolitical consequences of the spread of renewable energies worldwide. From a macroeconomic point of view, it would be tempting to conclude that the transition to renewables (solar, wind …) will gradually end today's geopolitics of fossil fuels based on historical relationships between energy producers and consumers. The new challenges induced by energy transition policies could paradoxically turn out being as complex as today's geopolitics of energy. Local and decentralized relations could add a new geopolitical layer to current traditional actors. Technical, economic, sociological, behavioural, spatial and legal dimensions could also complicate the emerging puzzle. A massive diffusion of renewables into the world's energy mix could also lead to new, unexpected interdependencies such as dependencies to critical materials, a new geopolitics of patents and the implementation of a renewable diplomacy. Critical materials and patents on energy transition technologies could then become the new specific assets of the upcoming international climate negotiations for numerous countries.

Do renewable energies improve energy security in the long run?