Weather, shifting demands and conflict: analysing electric outages across the European Union and Ukraine

Thomas Ptak and Julie Brooks

Chapter 7 in Are Low-Carbon Futures Decentralised?, 2025, pp 86-95 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Electric power outages are broadly understood as disruptions in electrical supply, which cause impacts across multiple civil services. While the consequences of outages vary across scales and sociodemographic contexts, the interdependencies of various systems supporting livelihood activities and social welfare are brought to attention when outages occur. As anthropogenic climate change continues to become more pronounced through extreme weather events and longer-term trends, corresponding energy demands will influence supply networks and increase pressure on energy generation and delivery across the European Union. During the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Russia has targeted energy installations to cause large-scale outages. Thus, electric outages have become an instrument of war, with significant implications beyond disruptions to supply networks and infrastructure. While there is a well-developed body of scholarship analysing power outages globally, there is a dearth focusing on European Union states. This chapter advances a limited literature on contemporary outages across the European Union and Ukraine.

Keywords: Outages; Climate Change; Weather; Demand; Conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035355181
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