METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF FORECASTING THE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT (IN RELATION TO THE EU COUNTRIES)
The article discusses various approaches to understanding the mechanisms of stewardship the fuel and energy complex, reveals factors that influence the current processes in the energy sector, and provides recommendations for the development of strategies for national and regional energy security. Today energy system in dire need of new sources of energy, new principles of its transformation and transportation, «smart» energy management systems. To preserve the integrity of the «economy – energy» and to account for all its internal connections necessary formulation of indicators integrated economic efficiency of FEC. It is concluded that the development of a regional development strategy Energy advisable to start with the key methodological position, a manifestation of which, in particular, is the consideration of Energy and its different levels at the same time as an integrated, hierarchically organized system, as well as a special subsystem closely with all subsystems of the national economic space. Otherwise lost complete information about energy complex, as the object of control, leading to the adoption of wrong decisions and significant expenses.