Since the European Commission also recognizes natural gas and nuclear energy as environmentally friendly, sustainable energy sources, it is worth examining how the share of environmentally friendly components in Hungarian electricity production changed between 2009 and 2020.

Based on the EC classification system, it can be calculated that 80.4% of the electricity generated in 2009 was environmentally friendly, while in 2020 it was 87.7%. This category therefore includes nuclear energy, natural gas, biomass, biogas, the renewable part of municipal waste, water, wind, solar, geothermal energy. While coal and coal products and petroleum products are not environmentally friendly (but we also list other categories of the CSO).

Of course, the Greens (outside green, inside red) do not agree with the Commission's decision - who would use solar energy as well as wind farms even if the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing - because natural gas also pollutes the environment.

Roughly half of the natural gas is as polluting as coal, so it is important that we reclaim the Mátra power plant, which has been scrapped by the left-liberals and will be converted to natural gas from a coal base by 2025. We have cheap access to natural gas from Russia under long-term framework contracts, which will ensure that this remains the case in the future.

There are countries and experts who do not support nuclear energy, e.g. Germany and Austria for the storage of nuclear waste. This is obviously a problem that needs to be solved, but it is important that a nuclear power plant always produces the same amount and does not emit harmful substances. That is why we are building Paks II. The biggest parties in nuclear power are the French.

The world cannot be changed in one fell swoop on environmental issues. It is important that Hungary has increased its share of solar energy in recent years (from 0 to 7%) and that it replaces the most polluting coal with natural gas and maintains nuclear energy. Hungary is moving forward, not backward.

And Germany is decommissioning its nuclear power plants because it believes it can meet all its needs with renewable energy sources. They are also reopening the coal-fired power plants, for which we can only congratulate them.

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https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/ene/hu/ene0009.html
https://en.euronews.com/2022/02/02/a-bizottsag-kornyezetbarat-forraskent-ismeri-el-a-foldgazt-es-az-atomenergiat
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