Criteria for involving RES in increasing the energy security of isolated inactive areas of the north and arctic zone of the Russian Federation

The article proposes the main criteria for involving renewable energy sources in improving the position of energy security in isolated hard-to-reach areas where decentralized power supply complexes operate under conditions of severe climatic changes and isolation. The considered criteria form the integrated value of renewable energy sources in ensuring energy security through a number of criteria such as resource significance, economic significance, environmental significance, energy significance. A group of indicators is proposed as part of the criteria, which is not limited to them, as well as the conditions for the formation of a gradation of threshold values of indicators with measurement tools are given. Schemes of analysis of resource indicators are given. Evaluation of the above criteria in accordance with the above methodology constitutes a criterion basis for a more efficient and optimal choice of the type of renewable energy sources, the option of combining renewable and traditional resources in the appropriate direction of ensuring and increasing the energy security of decentralized energy zones.