Until now, coal as a resource has been the most reliable energy source on the world market. The great world crisis caused by a sudden pandemic almost confirmed this fact. The year 2023 records larger certain shifts in coal consumption that are diametrically opposed. While coal consumption is increasing in some countries, some of the world's countries/a smaller number are experiencing a slight stagnation to a decrease in consumption. All previous efforts to significantly limit the use of coal as an energy resource did not yield satisfactory results. The year 2024 brings new strategic projections and orientation towards other energy sources to the detriment of coal, and special importance is given to investments in energy from nuclear power plants of various configurations, but according to the needs of users. And this could mark the current and next decades in all parts of the world, including in Serbia. Drastically growing energy needs open up new formats of energy configurations in the world as well as their transversal to users/consumers. It is difficult to predict whether such transformations will take place quickly and how long it will take. This is because this kind of transformation is the biggest/never recorded and it is decomposed into individual levels, according to the size of the countries, their economy, the achieved level of energy technologies and development. Risk potentials in the newly created energy turbulent configurations in the world energy redistribution seem to have never been higher and with the synergy of influence, they become very complex for detection and positioning from the aspect of their gradual reduction or minimization. The paper analyzes the newly created energy circumstances and the place of coal as an energy resource with the mapping of potential risks.