Normative Expression of Energy Security from the Perspective of Legislative Coherence

Abstract

Under the guidance of the holistic approach to national security and the new energy security strategy of “Four Revolutions and One Cooperation,” China’s energy law construction urgently needs to integrate and optimize its normative system. Based on the theory of legislative coherence, this paper systematically examines the expression and articulation of energy security norms across different legal fields. Although energy security norms are currently scattered across multiple legislations such as the Energy Law and the Ecological Environment Code, they fail to form a cohesive safeguard due to ambiguous positioning, missing mechanisms, and rule conflicts. This paper constructs a normative system for energy security from three dimensions: logical self-consistency, functional complementarity, and practical synergy. It further clarifies the division of normative labor among various sectoral laws, establishes cross-sectoral coordination mechanisms, and refines specific rules for conflict resolution, gap-filling, and liability articulation. Ultimately, it aims to form an internally unified, externally coordinated, and operationally effective legal framework for energy security, providing theoretical support and a pathway reference for the modernization of the energy governance system.