Энергопереход сквозь призму политической культуры

This paper highlights some tendencies in shifting national sustainable energy development priorities in the circumstances of growing geopolitical instability. A general trend towards raising the importance of the national energy security criterion among other components of the energy trilemma is noticed. Although natural gas is going to be substituted by renewable energy sources in the medium term, so far the EU energy system demonstrates an increasing consumption of brown coal, a slowdown of nuclear facilities decommissioning, as well as general rescheduling of carbon neutrality goals. In Russia, the exit of significant Western partners with their advanced technology has impeded the realization of several important decarbonization projects leading to partial shutdowns. Since the technological sovereignty has been effectively forced on Russia, the energy transition has been decelerating while the priorities are noticeably being shifted from tackling climate change towards the search for novel technological solutions, thus putting off the prospects of eventual cessation of the fossil fuels use