Potential for exports of energy-development equipment and technology to eastern Europe. [Monograph]
Most east European countries will face a serious energy shortage in the 1980s as their domestic resources near exhaustion and as their chief energy supplier, the Soviet Union, grapples with its own mounting energy problems. Increasingly, eastern Europe is being forced to exploit domestic resources more intensively and to look outside the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) block for imports of both raw materials and technology for production and conservation of energy resources. This paper surveys the energy situation in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania with a view toward identifying and assessing areas in which western firms might find export opportunities. Hard-currency shortages in the eastern European countries constrain western participation, but alternatives to Soviet sources of supply will be needed as the energy shortages become more pronounced. 43 references, 36 tables.
- OSTI ID:
- 5745235
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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290400 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Energy Resources
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Development
Demonstration
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DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
EASTERN EUROPE
ECONOMICS
ENERGY SOURCES
EUROPE
MATERIALS
RAW MATERIALS
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
TRADE