RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLY INDUSTRY. PROSPECTS OF ENERGY SUPPLY DEVELOPMENT ADJUSTMENT IN RUSSIA
The concept of sustainable development has defined the direction of power supply industry technological development: renewable energy source support has caused, apart from lowering the cost of the generated electricity to the figures normal for traditional power supply industry, transformation of all the stages of the inseparable technological process “generation and consumption of energy resources”. Consumption profile adjustment to the renewable energy source generation process is quite necessary in the nearest future. Currently, it can be considered, according to climate conditions of Russia, a way of increasing the coefficient of total capacity for existing thermoelectric and atomic power stations. It is demonstrated that development of distributed cogeneration with the use of current heat consumption is a more effective mechanism of lowering the negative anthropomorphic influence as compared to building wind or solar power stations. It also has the potential for increasing renewable energy source integration into the energy system with minimal expenditures.