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Energy policy of the EU - Nuclear power in Europe
Kovácsik, Miroslav ; Žamberský, Pavel (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee)
The events of the recent past in the energy department in Europe have shown how big is it's dependency on import of the primary energy resources. In the long run it is obvious that a high dependency on import of resources with the increasing demand of the population will not be able to provide Europe with so much needed easy accessible and reasonably priced energy. The integration process in Europe lasts more than fifty years now but energy policy is even after the ratification of the Lisbon treaty in controll of the national parlaments of member countries. Even though the options and posibilitie of the countries differ in the long run a closer cooperation is mandatory. The thesis is about the united energy policy in Europe and the development it went through since the beginning of the integration process in the fifties of last century. I will describe the main events that formed it as well as the main resources of energy production in the EU. I will explain the term energy security and in the end I will write about nuclear power that is today a vary efficient but after the events of Fukushima also controversial alternative of energy independence.
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Energy policy of the EU and CR in connection to Russia
Cimbálová, Pavlína ; Abrhám, Josef (advisor) ; Vitík, Matyáš (referee)
Present energy situation of the European Union is becoming to be more problematic. At the time when worldwide reserves of primary energy sources -- oil and natural gas -- continue to decrease, most of the EU member states are getting dependent on the imports of energy from foreign sources. One of the main impulses to discussion about new Energy policy of the EU in terms of security of energy supplies was a natural gas crisis between Russia and the Ukraine from January 2009. Russia represents one of the main energy partner of the EU -- it imports majority of oil and natural gas to the european countries. However, energy dependency rate of some of the central and eastern european states on imports of energy sources from Russia arouses concerns. The solution for the European Union proposes diversification of the suppliers aimed to increase energy independence on Russia. Also alternative energy sources or rebirth of nuclear energy can lead to the one-way dependence of the EU on imports of fossil fuels from Russia.
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EU energy policy
Popelka, Milan ; Adámková, Vlasta (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with EU energy policy. The first chapter analyzes the development and current status of energy sector in the EU. The second chapter describes the development of EU energy policy and analyzes the main areas of cooperation. The third chapter focuses on some of the issues of energy security. Specifically, in this chapter, characterized primarily by the European Union's energy relations with Russia and major projects in infrastructure, that energy security is directly linked.
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The Slovak republic and assurance of energy security
Auxtová, Ľubica ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
The issue of energy security is becoming increasingly discussed topic. Secure and continuous supplies of energy resources are in the interest of every country. This bachelor thesis concerns about energy situation of Slovak Republic as of the member of European Union. The first chapter describes current fuel-energy balance of Slovakia, state of national resources and strategic energy resources supplies and brings up the question of saving in still energetically highly demanding Slovak economy. The second chapter deals with European energy policy and it's context for Slovak politics and briefly describes important adopted documents. The thesis is terminated by the analysis of Slovak energy policy - a country with exclusive supplier of fosil fuels and indicates perspectives and reccomendations into the near future.
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Approaches to ensuring energy security in the EU and the USA
Kopová, Petra ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
The need to ensure that reliable, affordable and sustainable energy is a clear priority in building a powerful and strong economy. Therefore energy security has gradually become an integral part of the economic and foreign policies of the European Union and the United States of America. Although this concept did not exist ten years ago, energy security has rapidly risen in importance in the last decade. Both the USA and the EU have implemented energy issues as one of the pillars of their national security. The first chapter of this paper addresses the definition of energy security and characterizes its particular subsystems. The second part is devoted to real security in terms of the first and the second subsystem (the securing of energy resources, and the transport and transformation of energy resources). The final chapter briefly defines the energy policies of the European Union and the United States and compares approaches to ensuring the energy security of both regions. The main objective of this bachelor thesis is to identify and clarify the similarities or potential differences between these two approaches.
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The question of coordination of the relations of EU member states with Russian Federation on the field of energy security
Vrlík, Filip ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Druláková, Radka (referee)
Concern of this thesis is the Energy policy of the European Union in relation to the Russian Federation. Work examines to what extent do the member states execute the energy security on their national level and to what extent are they willing to coordinate the energy policy within the union. Thesis reviews the development of the energy security in the european region, the development of the relation EU-Russian Federation and identifies the contentious points in the relation. Thesis provides an overview of all twenty seven member states - solution of energy resources supplies security of each and unique relation between each country and Russian Federation. The question of possibility of coordination of energy policy is being solved in context of different resources access between member states and their divergent approach to Russia.
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Energy volatility of the world economy and its impact on energy security of the Czech Republic
Kopecký, Jan ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Vondrušková, Barbora (referee)
Sustainable development of the human society is continuously dependent on energy resources. On one side, demand of energy resources still grows while, on the other hand, the availability of energy resources decreases. It is not determined only by decreasing reserves of non-renewable resources but also by other factors - economic, ecologic, technologic and by politics because possession of energy resources helps to strenghten economic power and makes it easier to enforce one's political interests. Thus it is crucial to be concerned with energy volatility of Europe (as a region) since solving this issue in Europe is directly connected with the Czech Republic which cannot deal with its energy volatility in an isolation on a national level.
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Internal Market for Natural Gas in the EU
Pešek, Tomáš ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Vondrušková, Barbora (referee)
This thesis deals with the process of creating the truly functional internal market for natural gas within EU. Using the data about the market, it identifies the reasons for applying particular measures in this field and the important successes. Along with that, it points out the failures and difficulties that have to be overcome in order to ensure the resultful finish of the project. The thesis also offers some alternative opinions on the issues concerning the creation of internal market. All main factors playing essential role in this are covered - from the implementation of the directives, through unbundling of system operators, regulation and market observation, to the cooperation among network companies, rights of the final consumers and energy security.
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Gazprom and the Russian Foreign Policy towards the Countries of the Former USSR
Červinková, Magdaléna ; Lupták, Milan (advisor) ; Lisa, Aleš (referee)
This thesis deals with the energy policy of the Russian Federation and its role within the Russian foreign policy towards the countries of the former Soviet Union. It focuses in particular on the Russian state gas monopoly Gazprom. The thesis inquires into Gazprom's relation to the Russian foreign policy and examines how and to what extent Russia uses Gazprom as a tool for enforcement of its political interests. It also analyses the implications of the Gazprom's acitivities in the postsoviet countries for the energy security of the European union.
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