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Energy security of the EU
Musil, Jakub ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Vondrušková, Barbora (referee)
The issue of the energy security became widely discussed in the expert community and on several levels of the European policy during the recent years. The aim of this thesis is finding suitable tools of the energy policy of the EU and sketching of possible appearance of the energy mix in the next few decades. The first part describes the chosen methodology of the risk management. This is followed by the analysis of the current energy position of the EU. In the third part there are closely analyzed the particular factors of the risk, which enables a structured sight of the issue. The following chapter investigates current political struggle in energy questions on the European level. The consequences between the particular risk factors are evaluated in the last chapter using three scenarios of the possible future development. This analysis leads to prognosis of the energy mix in both the mid-term and the long-term horizon.
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Energy Security of the EU and its progress during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU
Kajzler, Jakub ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Havlová, Radka (referee)
This thesis deals with the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2009 in terms of energy and energy security. In the introductory theoretical part the notion of "energy security" is defined and the chapter analyzes energy in the EU primary law too, including jurisdiction of the issue to a particular Union's institutions. In the practical part of the thesis the priorities of the EU in energy and energy security are described and steps that CZ PRES made to increase EU energy security are analyzed. Particular emphasis is placed on the gas crisis and the general supply of gas, which played during the Czech Presidency a significant role. Final chapters focus on the shift in the EU's energy security during the forthcoming Swedish and the Spanish Presidency.
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Energy security of the European Union with focus on the Slovak Republic
Kapsová, Milena ; Vošta, Milan (advisor) ; Kašpar, Václav (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to characterise the situation of the energy security in the EU and especially to analyse the current energy security's problems in Slovakia. The thesis is divided into 3 parts. The first part is aimed at the promotion and progress in the Common Energy Policy of the EU in order to increase energy security. Analysis of actual flows of energy resources and their transport routes in the EU are described in the second part. Further the second part provides an overview of the present state of oil, natural gas and coal reserves in the EU and it explains to what extent the EU is dependent on their import. The third part deals with energy security in Slovakia. Among others it describes how Slovakia is supplied with natural gas and oil and what projects are carried out to diversify suppliers and transport routes. To summarize all the important aspects of energy security the last two parts of the thesis are finished with the SWOT analysis of the energy security.
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The Role of the Liquefied Natural Gas for Energy balance of the European Space
Kebrdlová, Helena ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Kašpar, Václav (referee)
The aim of the Master's thesis is to map the importance and role of liquefied natural gas in Europe and to assess its significance for future energy security of the EU. Working with the general characteristics of natural gas and LNG dedicated to LNG infrastructure and LNG position in the gas market in Europe. The fundamental part of the thesis analyzes the importance of LNG for energy security of European countries. Theoretical framework of the thesis comprises the concept of energy security of Daniel Yergin, which is followed by an approximation of EU energy policy. The end of thesis describes an European project North-South Energy Corridor that will significantly strengthen the energy security of Central European countries.
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The Role of Germany and Russia in the Energy Security of Present Europe
Waldhauser, Jiří ; Šauer, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Matějka, Zdeněk (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses the state of energy security in Central Europe, under which the Visegrad group is understood, and the impact of key players in the region, Germany and Russia, on it. Not being neglected, the importance of raw materials (natural gas particularly) is not seen as the synonym of energy security, but only as one component of a broader concept. Emphasis is put on other elements of energy policy, such as the support of renewable energy, energy efficiency, fiscal policy, energy conservation and others.
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Energy security of the Czech Republic
Kopecký, Jan ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
Undisputed necessity of energy resources for functioning of our society is obvious at every turn. However, safe and continuous supplies of energy cannot be taken for granted. It is mainly caused by an uneven distribution of energy resources on our planet. It comes as no surprise that possession of energy resources plays an essential role for various reasons, for example it can serve as a tool for enforcing one's economic goals or for strengthening one's political power. Thus, energy security represents a multidimensional issue which needs to be perceived from several different angles. This diploma thesis primarily focuses on energy security of the Czech Republic from the perspective of readiness to deal with interruption of energy supplies and from the perspective of critical infrastructure protection. Due to high complexity of this problematics, and due to the impossibility of the Czech Republic to deal with energy security only on a national level, are the aforementioned issues examined in connection with energy security of the European Union.
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Ukraine’s Position in Eurasian Transport of Oil and Natural Gas
Ruban, Andriy ; Vošta, Milan (advisor) ; Jeníček, Vladimír (referee) ; Wahla, Arnošt (referee) ; Terem, Peter (referee)
The thesis focuses on theoretical and empirical analysis of oil and natural gas flows in Eurasia and maps Ukraine's transit position in the regional oil and gas supply chain. The aim of the thesis is to objectively evaluate possibilities of Eurasian energy integration by enlargement of the European energy market further to the East and to prospect Ukraine's involvement into a new geopolitical energy alliance, driven by EU. This dissertation builds up on economical, geographical, historical and political premises of markets integration as well as system approach of energy alliances development. It argues that (i) energy integration on contrary to traditional economic stream can be explained by system approach and geopolitical stream of energy expansionism; (ii) EU infrustructural oil and gas projects imply deeper integration of EU member-states with involed non-members and (iii) Ukraine's oil and gas transit status within Eurasian region facilitates its growing involvement into EU energy intiatives guided by the European rules. The thesis is organized into three chapters. The first one is predominately theoretical and seeks to summarize current theoretical approaches towards integration and trends of energy markets in Eurasia. The second chapter introduces the role of oil and gas transport capacities and Ukraine's transit status in resolving disparities of Eurasian energy supply chain. The third chapter describes condition of Ukrainian oil and gas infrastructure and tackles issues for reformation of national oil and gas transit pipelines. Securing access to energy supplies has been a driving factor of global development since the industrial revolution. Increasing demand for oil and gas has undermined energy and economic security of world centers. In Eurasia Europe and Asia has been competing for fossil fuels originating from Russia, Middle East and Central Asia. Since recently Eurasian energy security problem is being solved by development of new supply routes. These infrastructural projects are initiated by oil and gas consumers, suppliers and transitors competing over control in the infrastructure. Such competition destabilises Eurasian relations, leads to energy "wars", political conflicts and increases supplies disruption risks. To secure stability of energy supply chain producers, transitors and consumers of oil and gas resources should integrate, closely cooperate and jointly invest into improving the existing supply routes and efficiency of fuels consumtion, production and transportation. Oil and gas should be traded for technologies and capital securing control in the infrustucture of mutual interests. Development of further bilateral and multilateral tools of joint interest would also help in resolving energy related contradictions of the participating parties. The leading role in driving energy integration in Eurasia belongs to the EU being the most mature and advanced integration grouping in Eurasia. EU realises TEN-e projects and from recently a common foreign energy policy aimed to strengthen external cooperation with oil and gas suppliers and transitors, including Ukraine. Since 1970s Ukraine has been an important oil and gas transitor for Russian and Central Asian oil and gas to Europe. Ukrainian pipelines intermediate 10 % of oil and 50 % of gas imports of Europe. To counterbalance Russian energy diplomacy over Ukraine, EU is supporting Ukraine's efforts in such energy alliances as INOGATE or GUAM. Ukraine's recent accession to the South Eastern-European Energy Community should improve stability of gas and oil supplies to Europe and facilitate reformation of national transit capacities.
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