Abstract
Performance results of Companies in territorial and industrial clusters of Russia in many ways determine the different level budgeting, including in particular regional ones, dramatically influencing the development of the social and cultural sectors of the region. Therefore, it’s no coincidence that their efficiency in performance is in the focused attention of regional administration authorities. A number of external and internal factors influence the operating efficiency of the companies in regional clusters. Recently, a particularly strong influence on the final results of their work has a constant rise in prices for energy resources, suppressing the growing competitiveness of the products in the world markets. The article analyzes the dynamics of changes in the main indicators characterizing the efficiency of energy use of the large industrial company, forming the core of the petrochemical cluster in one of the Russian regions. The factors with the greatest impact on improving production energy efficiency have been identified. The perspectives to reduce energy consumption in the conditions of electricity and power market liberalization have been reviewed. It is shown, that the adaptation of the companies’ activity in regional clusters to the changes in macroeconomic conditions of economic entities functioning, predetermine the necessity to address a whole range of fundamentally new methodological problems, methodic and organizational strategies to build their behavior in competitive electrical power market. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s5p141
Highlights
The most important condition for transition to the sustainable development of regional economic systems is to increase significantly the energy efficiency of the Russian economy
The problem of energy efficiency is obvious to be solved taking into account the special aspects of socio-economic development of different regions, accompanied by creation of a specific cluster infrastructure
The energy market has almost fully formed new conditions and opportunities for improving the efficient use of energy resources through the use of the internal reserves of energy saving, and as a result of implementing the new features provided by consumers energy products in a liberalized market of electric energy and power
Summary
The most important condition for transition to the sustainable development of regional economic systems is to increase significantly the energy efficiency of the Russian economy. It should be noted that the cluster infrastructure plays an important role in the development of regional systems First of all, it is determined by creation of the conditions for the production sector performance and implementation of the auxiliary functions for development of socio-economic system. The cluster infrastructure can be regarded as a locomotive of regional development, ensuring the achievement of the expected results of expanded regional reproduction. This is precisely why adoption of energy-efficient technologies should be integrated into the strategies of socio-economic development of regions and considered in elaboration of the strategic plans for the development of regional industrial clusters, territorial clusters, separate companies and production facilities
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