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Considering the ever-current topics regarding energy prices, availability and logistics in Europe and the world, it was found feasible and needful to make a comparative study of two European Union member countries, namely Slovakia and Finland. These countries have several features in common, like EU and NATO membership and therefore being eastern border of both, both having a population of about 5.6 million inhabitants, both having relatively high dependence on fossil fuel imports, both having also significant nuclear energy production capacity and both being a part of European energy markets. Both countries also have their own relatively abundant and earlier significant fossil energy resources (Slovakia has brown coal and Finland has peat), which both are nowadays non-preferred alternatives. This study mainly focuses on the comparison of energy needs, but also consumption itself, energy dependence on countries exporting energy commodities (for example Russia), energy logistics, development of renewable resources and brief simple future predictions in the time horizon 2-3 years. The study mainly focuses on the logistics (supply, transportation routes and storage) of important energy sources, such as electricity, natural gas, coal, nuclear power and of course renewable energy sources (RES) like biomass, wind, water and solar power and their utilization.
Keywords: Energy logistics, energy resources, energy policy, strategy, RES, market volatility© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.