How the Strait of Hormuz standoff reframes fossil fuels as energy security risk
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Sam Meredith
Summary
Iran's influence over the Strait of Hormuz has shifted the energy security debate, challenging the traditional view that fossil fuels provide security while renewables are unreliable. The conflict in the Middle East and potential closure of the Strait—which handles about 20% of global oil transit—has revealed that dependence on fossil fuels creates geopolitical vulnerabilities, reframing renewables as a source of energy independence rather than instability.
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· 3 pulledIran's influence over the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz has inadvertently transformed the energy security debate, effectively casting fossil fuels rather than renewables as the primary source of vulnerability.
For decades, the conventional narrative has been one in which renewables were criticized for their intermittency issues and dependence on weather conditions, whereas technologies such as coal, oil, and gas were seen as providing security.
The Middle East conflict and protracted closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that typically handles around 20% of the
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