energy dependence
Needing outside power
Energy dependence is reliance on external sources for fuel or power, typically describing a nation's need to import oil, gas, or electricity rather than producing its own: Europe's energy dependence on Russian gas became a crisis after the invasion.
The term often carries negative connotations of vulnerability, suggesting that dependence creates economic or political leverage for suppliers.
- relianceState of needing support
- importObtain from overseas
- oil importsPurchased foreign petroleum
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
- natural gasSubterranean hydrocarbon fuel
gas · pipeline · foreign · vulnerability · supply · supply chain · power grid · grid · addiction · fossil · leverage · shortage · blackout · geopolitical · sanctions · tanker · OPEC · security
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria
- dependencerely, need, rely on, neediness, reliance
- Oil Agepetroleum, crude oil, gasoline, diesel, fossil fuels
- Oil Politicsoil politics, oil embargo, oil sanctions, OPEC, petrodollars
- BelarusMinsk, Lukashenko, oblasts, oblast, Mir
energy, dependence, energies, energetic, energetically, energize, energized, energizing, energizer