RES Development: Implications for Security and Poland’s Foreign Policy
RES Development: Implications for Security and Poland’s Foreign Policy

Author(s): Bartosz Bieliszczuk
Subject(s): National Economy, Energy and Environmental Studies, Governance, Environmental and Energy policy, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Economic development, Environmental interactions, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Poland; foreign policy; security; renewable energy sources; digitalisation of the electrical grid; cybersecurity of energy grid;
Summary/Abstract: The dynamic growth of renewable energy sources (RES) and accompanying digitalisation of the electrical grid creates new challenges for Poland’s and the EU’s security. The most important include securing supplies of raw materials for RES (photovoltaic panels, wind turbines) and ensuring cybersecurity for the energy grid. The importance of these issues will only grow with the ambitions of authoritarian regimes to control the supply of raw materials and cyberthreats posed by these regimes and non-state actors.

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