Abstract
The necessity to achieve sustainable economic development, which would be environmentfriendly, would conserve natural resources and would not contribute to social tensions, is increasingly the key attitude in development strategies and plans for a range of economic activities, and in search for the best solutions. Sustainable development is understood as a lasting ideology of social change—as a compromise, which reconciles environmental, economic and social goals of our society. In the context of sustainable development, the energy development—the ability to ensure sufficient energy sources to the public—is of particular importance. Sustainable energy development is a complete set of measures, including better performance of energy production and consumption, gradually decreasing consumption of fossil fuels, lower pollution, introduction of renewable energy sources and advanced energy technologies, ensuring socially just pricing and accessible energy. The future of energy must go hand in hand with the concept of sustainable development and must ensure economic development of the public. Lately, many European countries face the issues of growing energy demand, and the consequences of global warming, ever-higher import dependency, also high and fluctuating prices of resources and energy. These issues lead to revisions of development projects and social programmes in the energy sector, and encourage adoption of instruments able to reduce social tensions, to satisfy the demand and to improve social safety. The EU energy policy is a means to ensure secure, competitive and sustainable energy. The document Green Paper: A European Strategy for sustainable, competitive and secure energy published by the European Commission on 8 March 2006 sets forth the key areas with specific energy development challenges. This document prescribes the axes for energy development, and contribution to economic growth and job creation in Europe. It also names the challenges to secure safe energy supply in the internal market, as well as the solidarity of member states, promotion of competitiveness, increasingly efficient and diverse energy, and innovation (Commission of the European...2006). Building of relevant strategies and development plans, selection of specific instruments in line with environmental conditions are among the priorities in each state. Development based on the sustainability principles, as well as planning, building and validation of various strategic decisions, demands for analysis and assessment of versatile information, such as EU policies and guidelines; political, social, economic and
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