ВИСОКОТЕХНОЛОГІЧНІ ІНВЕСТИЦІЇ ЯК ФАКТОР ЕНЕРГЕТИЧНОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ РЕГІОНІВ УКРАЇНИ
This article provides an assessment of energy security of Ukraine''s regions by indicators: energy intensity of gross regional product (GRP), kg of fuel per 1 UAH of GRP; the dominant share of fuel resources in energy resources consumption. The highest values of the integral index of energy security was found in Kyiv (0.788) and Sevastopol (0.788), where energy intensity of GRP was the lowest among all regions and reached 0,022 and 0,033 respectively. High energy security level is defined for Kherson region (0.608), where energy intensity of GRP is low (0,048). On this basis, it is concluded that despite the high share of the dominant fuel resource in consumption of energy resources of these regions, a high level of energy security is caused, above all, by low energy intensity of GRP. 394 Науковий вісник Ужгородського університету 2015 In order to identify regional disparities in the correlation of the level of energy security and high-tech level of industrial production cluster analysis of Ukraine''s regions by indicators of investment and innovation activity and energy security was conducted. The study identified a group of regions in which at the highest level of energy intensity of GRP low-tech industrial production dominates, and the development of high-tech industries is financed at a low level (Dniprope-trovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv regions). High-tech investments in the development of these regions are in small amounts and can not significantly affect the reduction of energy intensity of GRP. This is confirmed by regression analysis for Donetsk region for 2001-2013 - there was found no statistically significant effect of high-tech investment share in total fixed investment on energy intensity of GRP. For other groups of regions of Ukraine at a relatively low energy intensity of GRP relatively high values of investment and innovation activity in regions that are close to the centers of clusters was observed, and lower values of these indicators in regions that are far from the center of the corresponding cluster. This was the base for the conclusion on the interdependence of investment-innovation and energy activity in most regions of Ukraine. The necessity of active structural industrial transformations of the regions with economies based on intensive old industrial areas and is extremely energy intensive and extremely energy-dependent was substantiated, that does not meet the criteria for energy security. The results of linear regression for Donetsk region and a panel regression for the regions of Ukraine concluded ambiguity of the influence of investment share in high-tech industries in GRP energy, due to the inefficient use of these investments, their low high-tech level.