To what extent is the world ‘energy secure’ at present?

The world’s energy security depends on the energy consumption from the energy mix of countries. The world can be considered energy secure due to the fact that many countries are becoming more sustainable by using more renewable sources of energy, for example Costa Rica has already achieved 95-99% renewable electricity, approximately 80% of which is produced by hydropower and aims to run completely on renewable sources of energy by 2021, however even though water is abundant and local, it is considered an insecure resource at this high a percentage of the power mix, as it can be affected easily, by global weather changes (yearly rainfall). More and more countries are using renewable energies such as the UK which plans to build up to 4000 wind turbines and take advantage of its position near the Arctic ocean and the North sea to become more energy independent and secure, and with the existing wind turbines the country now generates enough wind energy to supply the needs of more than 6.7 million UK households, along with Denmark that sets to achieve 50% of clean energy supply by 2020 and 100% by 2050. The reason for such significance is that these countries are major economies with huge consumer society that has incredible energy demand (although very little compared to Kuwait and UAE) and are now supplied with clean energy that allows them to reduce importation of traditional supplies and become more secure.

The USA is the world’s biggest energy consumer and the biggest economy (after the EU) is becoming more and more secure by using more renewable energy with dedicated plans for renewable energy to supply 10% of the nation's electricity by 2012, rising to 25% by 2025. This is very important because it can encourage many other growing economies to use renewable energy form to supply its energy demands, which