Despite climate and clean energy transition targets, the current energy crisis has forced many countries to increase coal-based power generation. The question is: can we expect a turn in coal use in the shorter or longer term, and closely related to this, is there any other reason for the rise in coal use for energy than the energy crisis itself?
The analyst emphasized that a severe economic crisis has unfolded in Germany, partly due to the misguided sanction policy and the energy crisis resulting from the shutdown of nuclear power plants.
Due to the energy crisis, high gas prices and the reduction in the availability of Russian sources, infrastructural developments that make alternative sources available to the region are once again booming in Europe.
According to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the European continent needs to get as much energy as possible from a variety of sources in order to durably resolve the energy crisis.
The bleeding out in the Ukraine war may be the beginning of the decline of Moscow’s global influence. With the EU also weakening economically due to the energy crisis, the current multipolar world order is expected to change, leaving the US and China as the leaders of a bipolar world.
On Thursday, Gergely Gulyás held his regular press briefing detailing the government’s latest measures to tackle the energy crisis.
As EU member states revert to coal due to the energy crisis, it is now apparent that coal will soon be in short supply for some countries.
Germany’s energy transition (Energiewende), the bid to phase-out nuclear and coal energy to create a green economy, is catapulting them towards an energy crisis.
A Croatian MP blamed the worsening energy crisis–among others–on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on national television. But the EU doesn’t work that way.
The discussion focused on the current energy crisis, in the context of the recent Hungarian and French elections and the Russian-Ukrainian war. The panelists also provided an expert analysis of Hungary’s energy structure and the challenges and difficulties posed by the inevitable energy transition.
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