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By invading Ukraine and weaponizing its gas supplies to Europe, Russia has made natural gas what renewable energy used to be: unreliable and expensive. In this perspective, we use the paradigm shift concept developed by Florian Kern et al. to unpack the possible implications of the war for the European energy politics. We argue that the war and the...
Parallel to the ongoing energy transition, Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH) has emerged as one of the leading energy companies in the EU. Since its expansion started in 2009, the company has acquired assets worth EUR 16.7 billion while entering eight European markets, establishing itself as a crucial EU natural gas stakeholder and essential c...
Developing new nuclear projects in Europe is harder than ever. Governments still devoted to nuclear energy need to overcome substantial obstacles and justify their decision to other stakeholders as well as to the general public. In the Czech Republic, one of the last strongholds of nuclear energy in Europe, a pro-nuclear energy policy is often pres...
As the energy transition proceeds, local opposition against various energy developments is increasingly widespread. This paper explores the role of social networks for participation in opposition to coal mining in the Czech Republic. A case study of the opposition movement examines whether network connections and social influence channeled through...
The Visegrad Group ranks among the most visible examples of regional cooperation in Europe. Within the Group’s agenda, cooperation on energy policy appears to be especially important and it is also a field in which the Platform is considered to perform especially well. This article provides an account of what ‘energy cooperation’ is according to th...
This book summarizes a three-year research project on local opposition to coal mining in the Northwestern part of the Czech Republic. The research focused on the relational dimensions of the opposition movement and the political context in which the movement operates.
This book summarizes a three-year research project on local opposition to coal mining in the Northwestern part of the Czech Republic. The research focused on the relational dimensions of the opposition movement and the political context in which the movement operates.
This article addresses the future of coal in the European coal heartland, i.e. in the area of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, which together account for nearly 57% of coal consumption and 87% of coal-mining jobs in the EU. It approaches the problem within the interpretative tradition of social research and explores the coverage of the futur...
The article, authored by Černoch, Lehotský, Ocelík, Osička, and Vencourová, is titled “Anti-fossil frames: Examining narratives of the opposition to brown coal mining in the Czech Republic” and was published in Elsevier´s Energy Research and Social Science. It examines coalmining opposition in the Czech Republic, country with strong coal identity,...
One of the EU's main decarbonization goals is a reduction in the energy use of coal. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that public support for decarbonization can be gained automatically by pointing out threats from climate change, particularly in light of the role coal plays in the local and national economy and in energy security. In this...
In this article, we focus on the ongoing project of natural gas market integration in the Visegrad 4 region. Employing discourse-network analysis – a novel methodological framework that combines stakeholder analysis with frame analysis, we map and evaluate the individual stakeholders’ positions towards the project. The results show a substantial la...
Nuclear energy is one of the cornerstones of the contemporary Czech energy policy. In the country of ten million people, six commercial reactors are on line and two to four new units have been envisaged by recent official documents. The Czechs seem to be committed to nuclear despite the contemporary trends in both the regional and European energy p...
The article explores framing of the siting process of a deep geological repository of nuclear waste in the Czech Republic by the municipalities' representatives in the pre-selected localities. Three distinguished frames have been reconstructed. The risk frame, which connects the project with a number of predominantly environmental threats, is count...
The book analyses activities of Russian state-owned energy companies in the region of the Central and Eastern Europe and offers a complex analysis of their behavioural patterns with regard to the operational environment. The main incentives for making this study were traditionally strong ties between the Russian Federation and the region as well as...
This text focuses on the decision of the European Commission on the admissibility of state support for the expansion of Hinkley Point C, a British nuclear power plant. The European Commission not only influenced the development of energy sector in the UK with its decision, but also sent a strong signal that it is possible to use state aid for new n...
This article assesses the behaviour of the Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom on the Ukrainian market, addressing allegations that the company serves the Kremlin as a tool for leverage. The article examines the broad scope of mutual relations between Russia and Ukraine, including historical and economic determinants. For assessing Gazprom's be...
Kniha se zaměřuje na roli, kterou energetické suroviny, především ropa, hrají v zahraniční politice USA. Vedle klíčového postavení, které USA zastávají v mezinárodních vztazích, je významná též jejich role v otázkách energetické bezpečnosti. První kapitola zachycuje historický vývoj ropného průmyslu ve Spojených státech v druhé polovině 19. a na po...
Kniha se věnuje základům energetických technologií a způsobům obchodování s energetickými komoditami. Hlavní pozornost je věnována dodávkovým řetězcům jednotlivých komodit, tedy průzkumu, získávání, transportu, zpracování a využití ropy, zemního plynu, uhlí a uranu. Kromě toho jsou představeny základní postupy výroby a transportu elektřiny.
The book The Energy Sector and Energy Policy of the Czech Republic is divided into eight chapters. The first describes the key actors and the legislative framework of the energy sector of the Czech Republic, including an analysis of the Government, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of the Environment, and other legislative and regula...
Česká energetika se nachází mezi dvěma ambivalentními myšlenkovými proudy. Tento článek se zamýšlí nad tím, proč je dnes česká energetika obecně tam, kde je a co by mohly být limity dynamického rozvoje. Článek postupně definuje celkem pět předpokladů, které tvoří jakési nevyslovené pozadí současné české energetiky, v rámci kterého se zodpovědné oso...
The EU has been gradually increasing its emphasis on a common approach to energy security among its members in the last couple of years, and these member states have had to take this tendency into account when developing their own approach to energy policy. Additionally, both EU and its members have been forced to react to several challenges regard...
Článek vychází z projektu zpracovaného pro Česko-polské fórum Ministerstva zahraničních věcí České republiky. Jedna z klíčových součástí výzkumu byla komplexní analýza plánovaných infrastrukturních projek-tů s ohledem na bezpečnost zásobování České republiky ropou. Tuto část výzkumu autoři představují právě v tomto článku. Cílem článku je přiblížit...
The study is intended as a follow-up text of the research on unconventional gas resources in Poland, which the IIPS conducted in 2011 (see Černoch et al.: Unconventional Sources of Natural Gas: Development and Possible Consequences for the Central Eastern European Region). This time the research team was enhanced by the researchers arriving from th...
Kniha Energetický sektor České republiky se zaměřuje na různé aspekty energetické sektoru České republiky, jehož směřování pečlivě sledují nejen ekonomické a politické špičky země, ale vzbuzuje pozornost i u široké veřejnosti. Publikace je rozdělena do deseti kapitol podrobně analyzujících jednotlivé sektory, jako je ropa, zemní plyn, uhlí, uran a...
The upcoming years will show whether or not the North American model of unconventional natural gas resources development can be replicated outsider the continent. In Europe, Poland has recently gained most attention and in this sense it is considered to be a test case for whole Union. This book presents key dimensions which will either foster or in...
The study examines the impact which the potential curtailment of oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline could have on the Czech and Polish oil industries. It starts, therefore, with a comprehensive analysis of the Czech and Polish oil sectors. The section that follows focuses on Russia. It examines the Russian oil sector, export preferences and...
The article analyses how the standpoints of political parties on energy related issues are formed. The effect of the process of forming these standpoints on energy policy in general in the Czech Republic, the divergence among ideologies (coming out not only from the election programs), and other factors, as well as the parties' ideological continui...
During the last few years we have observed great changes in the oil market
along with the growing tendency to use oil as a means for international
politics. There is a need for analysing this situation. In this study the author
shows how the "oil weapon", functions as a mechanism which may
influence foreign policies of the USA and European countrie...
