Abstract
In article assessment of tendencies and prospects of cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union in the field of renewable energy sources was carried out. Over the past decades, the theme of climate change, especially caused by human activity, has become one of the most acute and most exploited in scientific disputes. Today, the problem of finding new sources of energy is more than acute, with a special place occupy non-traditional ones. The reduction of Ukraine's energy dependence on traditional fuel resources is possible only through the development and use own alternative energy, which uses local resources – bioenergy as a fuel or does not require a fuel component at all – solar, wind and small hydropower. The European Union is one of the leaders in the implementation of alternative energy and renewable energy sources and initiates the creation of many organizations that finance alternative energy projects. Ukraine should ensure the effective convergence of its own legislation with the European Union, since it defined the European integration vector as a priority area of foreign policy development. At the same time, within the framework of the Union, the mechanism of environmental protection and progressive approaches to the implementation of energy policy, including in the field of renewable energy, can serve as the most constructive benchmarks for Ukraine's development in this area. Ukraine signed the Paris Agreement, and undertook certain commitments, namely: in accordance with the National Action Plan on alternative energy up to 2020, the objective was to reach 11% of RES in gross final energy consumption. Achieving this goal is possible only in the case of international cooperation with the EU in the field of alternative energy. However, today, the study of the prospects of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in this field is not developing sufficiently and there is a certain vacuum in solving strategic problems in this context, which determines the relevance of the topic.
Highlights
The development of renewable energy sources is a very urgent issue for Ukraine, especially in the context of developing cooperation with the European Union
The system approach was usedto assess the current state of alternative energy sources in Ukraine and the countries of Europe and analysis of Ukraine’s energy strategy
Ukraine has achieved some results in the field of alternative energy and use of RES
Summary
The development of renewable energy sources is a very urgent issue for Ukraine, especially in the context of developing cooperation with the European Union. Alternative energy sources are renewable energy sources that include solar, wind, geothermal, wave and tidal energy, hydropower, biomass energy, organic waste gas, sewage treatment plant gas, biogas, and secondary energy resources, which include blast furnaces and coking gases, methane gas for the degassing of coal deposits, transformation of the waste energy potential of technological processes. Renewable energy sources are renewable non-expanding sources of energy, namely solar, wind, aerot energy thermal, geothermal, hydrothermal, energy of waves and tides, hydropower, biomass energy, gas from organic waste, gas of sewage treatment plants, biogas [1]. The main stages of the study are determined for assessment of tendencies and prospects of cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union in the field of renewable energy sources:. – the value of alternative energy in the economy of Ukraine and the European Union; – research of historical preconditions of cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union in the field of alternative energy; – analysis of the current state of alternative energy sources in Ukraine; – definition of promising directions of development of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in the field of RES
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