An energy security strategic causality model using text mining for world region comparisons

Bui, T.-D., Ha, H. M., Tran, T. P. T., Lim, M. K. and Tseng, M.-L. (2024) An energy security strategic causality model using text mining for world region comparisons. Energy Strategy Reviews, 52, 101345. (doi: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101345)

Abstract

This study is to build a causality model to implement energy security strategies (ESSs) in approaching a world-regions comparison. This study contributes to ESSs by indicating a set of valid attributes and those attributes are interrelationships in nature. There is major global interest in ESSs due to the pressure to ensure sustainable energy supply sources. An adequate energy source is decisive for ensuring stable economic growth, enhancing social development, and protecting the environment. Nonetheless, in reviewing the energy literature, generating strategic attributes is still lacking, which leads to difficulties for policymakers in building, executing, and assessing energy policies. This study utilizes a hybrid method: text mining, cluster analysis, fuzzy Delphi method, fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory, and entropy weight method. As a result, five aspects and 22 criteria from the data pool are validated. The causal model shows that the energy control system, strategic collaboration and technological capability are the priority. In practice, the effect aspects are waste-to-energy and energy resilience. Although the research trends on ESSs in different regions are quite similar, each continent still has unique concerns such as European countries with distributed energy resources, Asia and Oceania with decarbonization, African countries with new technologies, and Americas with energy planning.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: This study is partially supported by National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (NSTC 111-2221-E-468 -008 -MY3).
• Keywords: Energy security strategy, energy control system, strategic collaboration, technological capability, water-to-energy, energy resilience.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Lim, Professor Ming

Creator Roles

Lim, M.: Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing

• Authors: Bui, T.-D., Ha, H. M., Tran, T. P. T., Lim, M. K., and Tseng, M.-L.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Management
• Journal Name: Energy Strategy Reviews
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 2211-467X
• ISSN (Online): 2211-4688
• Published Online: 29 February 2024
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2024 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Energy Strategy Reviews 52:101345
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence