FEATURES OF DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPECTS OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OF THE REGION

The article is devoted to a detailed analysis and a structured approach to the country's electricity industry. The place and significance in the process of reproduction of alternative energy sources are investigated. The reasons that inhibit the development of electricity are identified. The presence of a high level of danger from nuclear power plants is argued. The main investment objects, among the regional electricity markets, which need priority financial recovery, are shown. Steps to reform the electricity sector by strengthening the competitiveness of regional electricity markets are outlined. The forms of ownership are distinguished between separate functional types of works of the electric power branch of the region. The priority directions of electric power development are determined. The directions of increase of energy efficiency are offered, where the leading place belongs to innovations. The main directions of improving energy efficiency should be considered the use of innovative technologies, both domestic and global, including: modernization of small boilers and heat generators, the introduction of boilers with high efficiency; reconstruction of some boiler houses into more efficient mini-CHPs; reduction of energy losses; reduction of the level of heat losses in heating mains during transportation of thermal energy to the consumer due to the use of new insulating materials; wider use of the remainder of the “night failure”; wide use of local fuels, mine methane, biogas of household waste, wider introduction of boilers on peat and biomass; reduction of heat losses by thermal modernization of old buildings and the use of new heat-insulating materials in the construction industry.