Renewable energy sources in transnational cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

Abstract

The implementation of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) has made the use of renewable energy sources a priority. The region has always been economically and ecologically very diverse. The development of transnational cooperation was an opportunity to bridge disparities and support renewable energy development. The aim of the article is to determine how the transnational cooperation implemented under the EU Cohesion Policy could contribute to BSR energy transition. The authors elaborated a research model, which presents a sequence of activities. The research used secondary sources, which were KEEP.EU, EUROSTAT and EUSBSR. The article examined cooperation within 41 projects financed under seven territorial cooperation programmes in the BSR in the period 2000–2020. The research results are presented in terms of subject, object and space, and visually presented in relation to NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 units.