Indicative analysis of energy security at the regional level: methodology and practice exemplified by individual territories of Russia

ABSTRACT

The paper presents a methodology for assessing the level of energy security for individual territories in countries. The most significant energy security indices for such an analysis are formulated and used to illustrate a method proposed to obtain an integrated assessment of the energy security state for the regions of Russia. A method for determining the specific weights of indicators in the general system of their value is presented. The application of the developed methodology for analyzing the main trends and the scale of changes in the state of energy security of Russian regions is shown on the example of the Siberian Federal District. Conclusions about the energy security state in these regions are made, and the reasons for the related negative trends are presented. The presented indicative analysis allows identifying the problems in various aspects of energy security in the regions and helps develop measures to improve it.

KEYWORDS:

• Energy security
• fuel and energy suppl
• territories
• indices
• indicative analysis of energy security

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

The research was carried out under State Assignment Project no. FWEU-2021-0003 (reg. no. АААА-А21-121012090014-5) of the Fundamental Research Program of Russian Federation 2021-2030 using the resources of the High-Temperature Circuit Multi-Access Research Center (Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, project no 13.CKP.21.0038).

Notes on contributors

Sergey M. Senderov

Sergey M. Senderov was born in 1964. He graduated from Irkutsk Technical University in 1986. He is a Doctor of Engineering, Head of Energy Security Department and Deputy Director of Melentiev Energy System Institute SB RAS. His research interests are energy security, threats and indicators of energy security, the reliability of energy systems, and fuel-energy supply.

Elena M. Smirnova

Elena M. Smirnova graduated from Irkutsk Technical University in 2008. She is a junior researcher of Melentiev Energy Systems Institute SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia. Her research interests are energy security, threats, and indicators of energy security.

Sergey V. Vorobev

Sergey V. Vorobev was born in 1990. He graduated from Irkutsk Technical University in 2012. He is Ph.D. in engineering and senior researcher at Melentiev Energy System Institute SB RAS. His research interests are the reliability of energy systems, the reliability of gas supply, and energy security.