2025: The Energy Transition at the Crossroads of Reality

From soaring natural‑gas prices in the United States and survival‑driven mergers in the North Sea, to the underperformance of wind power, the return of nuclear energy, and sabotage off the Greek coast, the energy system is not “advancing” in a linear way; it is being forced to redesign itself under the pressure of geopolitical conflict and technical constraints.

Europe’s grid‑capacity crisis confirms the same reality. The EU’s eight new transmission corridors show that the obstacle is not technology but geography, national resistance, and chronic underinvestment in networks. In the Balkans, the recent reclassification of the Serbia–Romania interconnection and the Transelectrica system from ECE to SEE reveals how fragmented the European market remains. This link will join the Core only once ECE is fully integrated into the same framework—a slow and uneven process with direct consequences for energy flows, trading capacity, and supply security in a region that remains structurally vulnerable.

By 2025, it had become clear that the energy transition is not a narrative but a daily test of real systems. It is not the clean break imagined by ideologues, but a technical redefinition. Trillions will continue to flow into hydrocarbons—only now in smarter, more efficient, and more strategically designed forms.

Energia.gr - By Invitation - December 29, 2025

Author: Yannis Bassias

https://www.energia.gr/article/239405/2025-h-energeiakh-metavash-sto-stayrodromi-ths-pragmatikothtas