This paper examines the current status and future prospects of nuclear energy in the Visegrad Group (V4) countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). All four countries recognize the importance of decarbonizing the energy system, the ...

Primary solid biomass (PSB) is an important energy source in Europe and in the Visegrad Four (V4) countries alike. Biomass has remained the largest single renewable energy source in both the EU and the V4, despite the rapid growth of new renewable energy ...

Self-sufficiency, climate change and increasing geopolitical risks have driven energy policies to make renewable energy sources dominant in the power production portfolios. The initial boom in the mid-2000s of global photovoltaic installations ...

The Eastern enlargements of the EU increased the bloc’s dependency on Russian gas and contributed to a more cautious attitude towards these supplies. This paper assesses the Russian gas dependency of the 11 Central and East European new member states ...

The Eastern enlargements of the EU increased the bloc’s dependency on Russian gas and contributed to a more cautious attitude towards these supplies. This paper assesses the Russian gas dependency of the 11 Central and East European new member states ...

Russia's war against Ukraine and the ensuing state of de facto energy war between Russia and the West have had unprecedented consequences for European and global energy markets including, above all, the natural gas market. On the one hand, it reinforces ...

Solar installations have been booming in Hungary and Poland in recent years and all Visegrad group countries are anticipating significant growth in variable renewable energy capacity by 2030, introducing the challenge and opportunity of surplus ...

Our study provides a detailed overview of the current state of the residential heating sector in the Visegrad countries (V4 - Slovakia, Hungary, Czechia, Poland) in order to inform recommendations to reduce emissions from this challenging but high ...

In the past two years, the energy markets have experienced the biggest fluctuations in the last few decades, leading to an unprecedented period of record-breaking prices. Prices of some commodities rose more than tenfold compared to the long-term ...

This paper investigates the carbon sequestration potential of forests in Hungary through the introduction of a carbon price incentive, assuming an integrative national climate policy. We have developed a bio-economic mathematical optimisation model (FOX ...