THE WAYS AND PROBLEMS OF POWER EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNAL SERVICES ECONOMY OF THE RUSSIAN NORTHERN REGIONS ON THE BASIS OF INNOVATION TECHNIQUES

The article considers the problems of power savings and increase in power efficiency in the housing and communal services economy of the Russian northern regions and the ways of solutions to these problems on the basis of innovation techniques using power servicing contracts as a possible mechanism to finance the investments in this sphere. As an example the author examines the implementation of pilot project “Power efficient quarter” in the city of Apatity in the Murmansk Oblast

Keywords

northern regions, power efficiency, innovation techniques, housing and communal services, power servicing contracts