Analysis of energy efficiency of economy in the regions of Russia

Compared to similar indicators in a number of different countries of the world, the energy efficiency of the Russian economy has been rather low for a long period of time. It has a negative influence on the competitive ability of domestic enterprises, as well as the rate of the economic growth of the country. The goals to lower the power intensity of the gross domestic product have been put in various strategic documents, worked out in our country. Nevertheless, according to the statistics, the rates of the decrease of power intensity of the gross domestic product don't correspond to the target. The territory of Russia was divided into 8 federal districts, the energy efficiency of which significantly differs from the average rate of this indicator taken as an average one of the whole country by analogy with the average temperature in the hospital. We made the analysis of the indicators of energy efficiency of the Russian economy in the view of federal districts and separate regions. It was established that regions, being the part of one and the same federal district, have rather different indicators of energy efficiency. So, the contribution of each region in reaching the strategic goal indicators of the decrease of power intensity of the GDP of the Russian Federation is different. The authors of the article made a suggestion that the approaches to the energy efficiency management applied to different federal districts and even regions, being their part, must be different. Under this condition, all the regions should be divided into 4 groups depending on the level of electrical energy consumption of the gross regional product and the indicators of the energy efficiency of the economy. Different goal criteria of the decrease of the energy consumption should be determined and different requirements for energy conservation application should be formed for each group.