Energy Technologies and Sustainable Development

Abstract

The authors have considered the influence of practically applied energy technologies on the indicators of sustainable development. The article presents the results of a systematic analysis of the sustainable development’s environmental, economic and social aspects regarding the energy technologies that use coal, gas, hydro, solar, wind and nuclear energy as their primary energy source. According to the comparative systematic analysis performed by the authors, the energy technologies that use natural gas and nuclear energy are the best for sustainable development.