SMART GRID AS A DRIVER OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE SOUTH MACROREGION

The problems of energy efficiency and economic growth are especially acute in the South of Russia because the level of economic development in the southern regions is underestimated, and the energy intensity of economics is overestimated in comparison with other territories. The interaction between indicators of energy intensity and economic development of the Federal districts and regions of the Russian Federation and the territories South region is identified and described on the basis of correlation and regression analysis; the influence of the GDP structure on energy consumption in the region is analyzed and characterized by a specific structure of the regional economics and power consumption at the South of Russia; the potential of modernization of the grid the southern macro-region on the platform of the Smart Grid for improvement of energy efficiency and economic growth is revealed and proved. А public-private partnership is discussed as the main mechanism of investment.

economic growth, power engineering, energy efficiency, energy intensity, elasticity, gross domestic product, Smart Grid, modernization, grid infrastructure, public private partnership, South of Russia