The Energy Union and European Union energy security

Zajączkowska, Magdalena

doi:10.12775/eip.2018.023

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“…What is more, in 2019, Poland did not commit to the 2050 climate neutrality goal, and Poland claims the Emissions Trading System to be revamped. The Czech Republic and Poland base their energy balance on their natural fossil fuels; in Poland, its share accounts for 52% of the country's energy mix, while in the Czech Republic, 38% [71].…”

Section: Europeanization Of the Energy Policy In Visegrad Countries And Its Effectivenessmentioning

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Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

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Energy issues are sensitive for the four Visegrad countries as European Union (EU) member states; thus, this area’s convergence might be problematic for these countries. There is a clear research gap concerning the processes of Europeanization of the energy policy in the Visegrad countries. This article aims to identify and evaluate the progress of four Visegrad countries (V4) in implementing the EU energy goals in the context of the Europeanization. The article uses three main methods: Hellwig’s method, Kendall’s rank concordance coefficient, and k-means clustering. These calculations will allow one to study the Europeanization processes, which means checking the gamma convergence. For calculations, we use the available statistical data from Eurostat for the years 2005–2018. Poland and other Central European countries, including Czechia, and Hungary, largely depend on coal for their energy needs. The empirical results have shown that there have been no significant changes in the classification of EU countries in terms of their fulfillment of the EU climate and energy targets in the analyzed period. This is the case in all EU member states, including the Visegrad Group countries, but except for Poland. This means that the level of Europeanization of the energy policy and its effectiveness is similar in all member states except for Poland, which is becoming a kind of the exception. Throughout the investigating period, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia were close to meeting the set targets and could be rated high compared to the EU countries. Poland, especially since 2015, has been noticeably and increasingly distanced from the other V4 countries. It can be perceived as a gradual drift away from Europeanization of the EU climate and energy policy in Poland.

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Section: Europeanization Of the Energy Policy In Visegrad Countries And Its Effectivenessmentioning

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Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

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“…This balance depends on geopolitics, on the availability and affordability of energy through domestic production or imports and on the diversification of energy sources. At the end of the last century, studies about energy security focused on supply [78], so the main concern for policymakers was getting a non-intermittent flow of energy supply [79]. Currently, the concept of energy security is part of a broad interdisciplinary field including dimensions such as energy efficiency, sustainability, reduction of greenhouse gas, energy poverty, equitable access to energy, energy education, etc.…”

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The European Union Green Deal: Clean Energy Wellbeing Opportunities and the Risk of the Jevons Paradox

2021

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After the Great Recession of 2008, there was a strong commitment from several international institutions and forums to improve wellbeing economics, with a switch towards satisfaction and sustainability in people–planet–profit relations. The initiative of the European Union is the Green Deal, which is similar to the UN SGD agenda for Horizon 2030. It is the common political economy plan for the Multiannual Financial Framework, 2021–2027. This project intends, at the same time, to stop climate change and to promote the people’s wellness within healthy organizations and smart cities with access to cheap and clean energy. However, there is a risk for the success of this aim: the Jevons paradox. In this paper, we make a thorough revision of the literature on the Jevons Paradox, which implies that energy efficiency leads to higher levels of consumption of energy and to a bigger hazard of climate change and environmental degradation.

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“…From the geopolitical perspective, attention is drawn to the fact that energy security is a subsystem of national security and should be analyzed both from a political and economic point of view. From an economic point of view, the threats related to the shortage of fuels and interruptions in energy supply are emphasized [7].…”

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Importance of Agriculture in Creating Energy Security—A Case Study of Poland

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Marks-Bielska

Zielińska-Chmielewska

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Analyses of statistical data were made and their results discussed in this article to identify the level of Poland’s energy security and to determine the role of agriculture in ensuring it. It has been demonstrated that coal continues to be the staple resource for the generation of energy in Poland. The current demands and requirements concerning the reduced consumption of non-renewable resources and Poland’s obligations towards the European Union regarding the production of energy from renewable resources—all these considerations contribute to the promotion of a skillful development of energy crop farming, which, in Poland, is likely to be very successful. Agriculture plays an important role in ensuring Poland’s energy security, and this branch of farming can grow dynamically provided adequate legal regulations and promotion are in place. The chief resource for renewable energy generation is biomass. Straw and biogas production in agricultural biogas plants are two solutions whose full energy production potential still awaits to be tapped.

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The Energy Union and European Union energy security

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

Europeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2005–2018

The European Union Green Deal: Clean Energy Wellbeing Opportunities and the Risk of the Jevons Paradox

Importance of Agriculture in Creating Energy Security—A Case Study of Poland

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