CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Chelli, Tatiana |
|---|---|
| Title | The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as an opportunity for the green transition in Europe |
| Summary | This thesis will focus on the evolution of green hydrogen as a sustainable energy and the impact that the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 had in the development of this energy in the European landscape. This armed conflict triggered an energy crisis in the region, forcing states to take immediate action to recover their energy independence and sovereignty from Russian fossil-fuels. As a consequence, the REPowerEU Plan was launched as a way to diversify energy sources, improve energy efficiency and foster renewable energies. Green hydrogen is a key component to achieve the last objective as it is an energy source that is produced from other renewable sources and does not emit greenhouse gases. However, there are still numerous challenges to overcome related to the costs of production, required infrastructure and loss of energy during transportation. The aim of this research is to explore how Germany and France, being the two most important economies in the European Union have faced the challenges that the 2022 energy crisis brought, using the energy trilemma framework created by the World Energy Council, which evaluates energy security, equity and sustainability. Key findings show that both countries have implemented stricter green hydrogen policy measures in response to the 2022 energy crisis, but while Germany’s policies in general were more ambitious, they also gave importance to the import of other sources of hydrogen energy that are not so sustainable as green hydrogen, while France’s policies were more focused on green hydrogen produces mostly locally. |
| Supervisor | Weiler, Florian |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/chelli_tatiana.pdf |
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