INDICATOR SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The purpose of this study was to develop a compact, consistent and statistically computable system of energy indicators, allowing you to fully and comprehensively evaluate the energy efficiency of the regional development (a subject of the Russian Federation). Since energy efficiency is presented through the reduction of energy intensity, increase in energy saving and energy security, and is also distributed across the region; when developing a system of energy indicators of the energy efficiency of the regional development was considered both in terms of its main aspects (energy intensity, energy saving, energy security), and in the context of regions (producers and consumers of fuel and energy resources (hereinafter - FER). The latter were considered the fuel and energy complex (hereinafter - FEC) of the region, the real sector of the regional economy (excluding FEC), the sector of non-market services and households. Such systematization of energy indicators allows: evaluating the components of the energy-efficient development by region`s subjects and by aspects of energy efficiency; identifying the fuel and energy sector in the region and evaluating its contribution to the overall energy efficiency of the regional development in all its aspects; evaluating aspects of the energy-efficiency of the regional development from the point of view of the main consumers of fuel and energy resources. In forming the energy indicators system, domestic and foreign experience was used to comprehensively evaluate the energy efficiency, as well as Russian regulatory documents (GOSTs, orders, federal laws). The developed system of energy indicators may also be useful in describing the target state of the subject of the Russian Federation from the point of view of the energy efficiency within the framework of the regional socio-economic development strategy.
Keywords: energy efficient development of the region, energy intensity, energy security, energy saving, energy indicators.
Highlights:
for the formation of goals and objectives of the energy-efficient development of the subject of the Russian Federation, a system of energy indicators is needed, which would allow evaluating the level of the energy efficiency in the regional development;
the existing systems for evaluating the energy-efficiency of the regional development are not perfect, the indicators are not balanced among themselves, to calculate most of them, an inaccessible system of statistical data is required, there is no unified approach to evaluating the energy efficiency of the subjects of the Russian Federation;
the advantages of the developed system of energy indicators for a comprehensive evaluation of the level of the energy efficiency in the regional development (the subject of the Russian Federation) are compactness, balance and statistical computability;
the proposed system of indicators makes it possible to evaluate the energy efficiency of the regional development, both in terms of its main aspects (energy intensity, energy saving, energy security), and in the context of regional actors - producers and consumers of fuel and energy resources.
Vladimir A. Tsybatov, Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Regional Economics and Management; Irina A. Naugolnova, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics, Organization and Strategy of Enterprise Development - Samara State University of Economics.