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The Role of Renewable Energy in Advancing SDG 7: Ensuring Clean and Affordable Energy
Viacheslav Makedon*1, Mykola Politykin2, Svyatoslav Hromyak3, Iryna Novosad4, Iryna Doronina5
1Department of International Economics & World Finance, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine.
Email: education_world@ukr.net | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8131-0235
2Department of Thermal and Alternative Energy, National Technical University of Ukraine, & Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Educational and Scientific Institute of Atomic & Thermal Energy, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Email: nickonpn@ukr.net | ORCID: https://orcid.org//0009-0005-5065-6205
3Department of Business and Trade, Lviv National Stepan Gzhytsky University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Lviv, Ukraine.Email: svyatoslav.hromyak@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5066-0621
4Department of Constitutional, Administrative and International Law, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Lutsk, Ukraine. Email: idukhnevych@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1202-028X
5Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Email: iryna.doronina@tum.de | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7032-644X
*Corresponding author
Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 8(2): 485-505. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.080223
Received: 16 June 2025
Reviewed: 31 July2025
Provisionally Accepted: 03 August 2025
Revised: 10 August 2025
Finally Accepted: 12 August 2025
Published: 25 August 2025
The key challenge of the modern world is sustainable energy development, which matches traditional energy sources, leading to severe environmental and economic problems. Renewable energy sources (RES) are essential to reducing CO₂ emissions and increasing energy efficiency towards achieving SDG 7. The study aims to explore the impact of RES on affordable and clean energy, the development trends, and the main barriers to implementation. The method is based on statistical analysis, comparison, the content of scientific sources, and case studies of countries' political strategies. The results confirm that an increase in the share of RES in the global energy balance contributes to reducing dependence on fossil fuels, improving the environmental situation, and economic development. Several areas remain as main barriers, namely the high costs of RES initial investments, lack of infrastructure, and RES integration and regulatory restrictions. It was concluded that compelling government support and favourable political conditions tend to be associated with higher rates of RES implementation. In the study, one of the most practical values is determining the directions of political and economic support for RES to accelerate the energy transformation and the environmental load. The results obtained can also be used in developing state programmes to support RES and implement effective models for their integration into national energy systems.
Renewable energy sources; Sustainable development; SDG 7; Energy efficiency; Decarbonisation
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Makedon, V., Politykin, M., Hromyak, S., Novosad, I. and Doronina, I. (2025). The Role of Renewable Energy in Advancing SDG 7: Ensuring Clean and Affordable Energy. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 8(2): 485-505. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.080223
Makedon, V., Politykin, M., Hromyak, S., Novosad, I., & Doronina, I. (2025). The Role of Renewable Energy in Advancing SDG 7: Ensuring Clean and Affordable Energy. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 8(2), 485-505. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.080223
Makedon V., Politykin M., Hromyak S., Novosad I., Doronina, I. The Role of Renewable Energy in Advancing SDG 7: Ensuring Clean and Affordable Energy. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 2025, 8 (2),485-505. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.080223
Makedon, Viacheslav, Politykin, Mykola, Hromyak, Svyatoslav, Novosad, Iryna, Doronina, Iryna. 2025. “The Role of Renewable Energy in Advancing SDG 7: Ensuring Clean and Affordable Energy”. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 8 no. 2: 485-505. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.080223
Makedon, Viacheslav, Mykola Politykin, Svyatoslav Hromyak, Iryna Novosad and Iryna Doronina. 2025. “The Role of Renewable Energy in Advancing SDG 7: Ensuring Clean and Affordable Energy”. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 8 (2): 485-505. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.080223
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