The European Union and the New Energy Paradigm in the Transition Towards Climate Neutrality
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https://doi.org/10.12795/IESTSCIENTIA.2024.mon.01Keywords:
Climate neutrality, European Green Deal, Energy crisis, REPowerEU, Energy securityAbstract
The energy crisis generated by the war in Ukraine has shown the enormous vulnerability of the European Union (EU) to imports of Russian fossil fuels. In response, the EU has adopted the REPowerEU plan, which aims to achieve energy autonomy in the short term. Framed within the European Green Deal, REPowerEU accelerates the energy transformation as an essential component of the transition towards climate neutrality.
The objective of this article is to analyze the new measures introduced by REPowerEU, while assessing their potential to accelerate the energy transition and their contribution to the European climate agenda. The analysis reveals that the implementation of REPowerEU not only implies an accelerated renewal of energy sources and suppliers, but also a change in the energy model, in which energy security is currently the fundamental priority above traditional market approach, based on competitiveness and economic efficiency.
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