1467 KB0 KB201320252023Bricl, Martinletnik:16številka:iss. 4str. 29-40ISSN:1855-5748COBISSID_HOST:187884803URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-DPCX4C06enFakulteta za energetikoJET on-lineJournal of energy technologyeconomically viable energy productionekonomsko upravičena proizvodnja energijeelectricity productionelevated energy pricesfosilna gorivafossil fuelspovišane cene energijeproizvodnja električne energijetermoelektrarnethermal power plantsInflationary elevated energy prices as the main factor of fuelling economically viable electricity production in EU fossil fuels based thermal power plants| Inflacijsko povišane cene energije kot glavni faktor pospeševanja ekonomsko upravičene proizvodnje električne energije v EU fosilno gorivnih termoelektrarnah|The inflation in the last two years has driven the prices of the materials, goods as well as energy significantly higher. With steep increased inflation from month to month in the last two years, the overall inflation peaked at 9.2%, and core inflation at 6.2% in 2022 for the Eurozone area. This elevated prices are troubling the markets, industry and households, making the everyday business much more difficult for them than it was in pre-inflationary times. Also, additional geopolitical changes happened in the last two years (the war in Ukraine) which impacted the energy supply from the east significantly , primarily lowering the inflow of Russian gas to the European states to almost zero and banning the Russian crude from the international markets. This demanding condition on the energy market, as well as the very narrow time frame for building up a sufficient supply of energy for the winter of 2022 resulted in rather unexpectedly favourable conditions for energy generation (electricity or heat) from still operating coal based thermal power plants, which, in some way, is unacceptable, since we are exiting the coal based thermal power plants in EU actively, and trying to substitute them with renewables & alternatives. However, the aforementioned international markets stress test revealed that abandoning the fossil fuels from our everyday life will not be that easy, as we thought a decade agoInflacija je v zadnjih dveh letih bistveno dvignila cene surovin, blaga in energije. Z močno naraščajočo inflacijo iz meseca v mesec v zadnjih dveh letih je skupna inflacija leta 2022 za območje evra dosegla najvišjo vrednost pri 9,2 %, osnovna inflacija pa pri 6,2 %. Te povišane cene povzročajo težave trgom, industriji in gospodinjstvom, ki jim otežujejo vsakdanje poslovanje. V zadnjih dveh letih so se zgodile tudi dodatne geopolitične spremembe (vojna v Ukrajini), ki so močno vplivale na oskrbo z energijo z vzhoda, predvsem so zmanjšale dotok ruskega plina v evropske države na skoraj nič in privedle do prepovedi izvoza ruske surove nafte na mednarodne trge. Te zahtevne razmere na energetskem trgu in zelo ozek časovni okvir za vzpostavitev zadostne zaloge energije za zimo 2022, so povzročile precej nepričakovano ugodne razmere za proizvodnjo energije (elektrike ali toplotne) iz še delujočih termoelektrarn na premog, kar je nesprejemljivo, saj EU aktivno opušča proizvodno električne energije iz termoelektrarne na premog in jih poskušamo nadomestiti z obnovljivimi viri in alternativami. Vendar pa je že omenjeni stresni test mednarodnih trgov pokazal, da opustitev fosilnih goriv iz našega vsakdana ne bo tako preprosta, kot smo mislili pred desetletjemTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za energetiko