The relevance of this study is that competitiveness is one of the most important and fundamental economic categories. The problem of researching international competitiveness is gaining more and more importance in the conditions of growing uncertainty. In Ukraine, the energy industry has a particularly high level of uncertainty of the economic environment, which is caused by the large-scale destruction of its infrastructure due to a full-scale war by the Russian aggressor since February 24, 2022. The relevance of the choice of namely this industry is also due to the fact that it provides energy resources (electricity, heat, gas, petroleum) to economic entities of all industries, therefore its problems will significantly affect it stable work. In the same way the problems of the international the competitiveness of energy industry in conditions of uncertainty will have a negative influence, first of all, on state export revenue, hence, on budget revenues and on balance of payments. To overcome this problems and challenges of uncertainty in conditions of which the international competitiveness of the energy industry has seriously fallen, primarily, it is needed explore the essence of the very components of the concept of international competitiveness of energy industry in conditions of uncertainty. After all, without understanding the essence of this complex concept, it is impossible to carry out an adequate formalized assessment with a suitable methodological approach of the phenomena, processes, characteristics of objects and subjects associated with it, on the basis of which a set of measures is subsequently developed to solve problems that have a negative impact on it. The object of this study is a disclosure of the essence of the concept of the international competitiveness of the energy industry in conditions of uncertainty. The main research methods are: decomposition, system analysis, morpheme-semantic analysis, etymological analysis, comparative analysis, logical chain method, grouping, synthesis, abstraction, theoretical generalization. Results of the research: decomposition of the concept of international competitiveness of the energy industry in conditions of uncertainty into simple one-word concepts was carried out; their morpheme-semantic and etymological analysis was carried out; a logical chain is built between them; the structure of the energy industry was analyzed by the objects of competitiveness. The practical application of the obtained results consists in the fact that, based on the disclosure of the essence of the international competitiveness of the energy industry in conditions of uncertainty, recommendations were provided for the quantitative assessment of its level.
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