March 25, 2015 by Zuzanna Nowak, Jakub Godzimirski and Jaroslaw Ćwiek-Karpowicz

For Russia, energy resources, especially gas, are viewed as a tool to project power beyond its borders. However, Russia’s room for “gas games” is constrained by its own capacities, the gas strategies of other players, and the EU’s ability to project its regulatory power, write Zuzanna Nowak and Jarosław Ćwiek-Karpowicz of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and Jakub Godzimirski of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, EU Policy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: diversification, energy security, energy union, EU energy policy, European gas market, financing, gas pipelines, geopolitics, natural gas, Russia, Ukraine

August 27, 2014 by Zuzanna Nowak

While discussions around Ukrainian energy dependence on Russia usually focus on gas, the Ukrainian nuclear sector is even more dominated by Russia. And more strategic: it supplies half of the country’s electricity. And whereas Ukraine wants to use less gas, the government intends to expand the country’s nuclear power production significantly. The good news for Ukraine is that it has plenty of its own uranium. With Western support the country … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Nuclear Tagged With: diversification, electricity market, energy security, EU energy policy, nuclear energy