The Impact of Energy Development on Society

Under the situation of economic globalization, a country's energy security is not only a matter of ensuring the balance of domestic energy supply. Due to the internationalization of energy market brought by economic globalization, the contradiction between domestic energy supply and demand needs to be solved through energy import, and the stable operation of national economy is closely related to the external dependence of energy. Therefore, the reliability of the country's energy import sources is bound to be closely related to the diplomatic relations between other countries rich in energy resources and countries with transportation channels. National energy security is even a national political and military issue. The change of national energy development strategy will affect all aspects of national development.

The different emphases of energy strategy selection are directly related to national politics, military and other national grand strategies. The traditional energy structure in developed countries is dominated by oil, which makes the focus of energy security supply on oil. The change of energy strategy promotes the change of energy structure and energy industry. The development of renewable energy industry promotes the change of energy structure, and also promotes the change of energy industry structure, making the energy industry develop in a diversified direction. World-class oil companies, such as BP, are actively developing new technologies such as solar energy and fuel cells. In the future, they are not only oil companies, but may become energy companies.