EIRP Senior Advisor Paul Saunders examines how war and sanctions have reshaped Russia’s role in global energy systems and how this might change over the next 5-10 years under additional pressure from the energy transition.
In the sixth installment of EIRP’s working paper series on Russia’s global energy role, Irina Mironova examines the least prominent of Russia’s fossil fuel industries, but one that forms the backbone of Russia’s railway system and whose workers have had outsized political impact in the past. While Russia has been largely able to redirect its coal exports following its invasion of Ukraine, the sector faces important challenges ahead.
