Seeking the sustainable power mix for Central Europe

Abstract

The power supply demand can be covered by different portfolios. Nevertheless, the numerous solutions have various social, economic and ecological consequences. The official Hungarian energy strategy focuses on nuclear energy, as the middle and long term plans contain two high capacity nuclear power stations, which should be built during the 2020's and the 2030's, respectively. These steps to the energetics monoculture seems to be in contradiction with the new way of development, such as diversified portfolios and dispersed generation. It seems that, recent energy solutions should be more complex, dealing with the demand side management possibilities and the interconnections of the different environmental management areas, involving the waste management, the forestry, the agriculture into the energy planning processes.