Prospects for public-private partnership in the development of the electricity supply sector based on environmental and intelligent technologies

• Main Author: Samir Agamusa ogli Guseinov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: North-West institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 2019-05-01
• Series: Управленческое консультирование
• Subjects: public-private project investment; electricity supply infrastructure; renewable energy sources; digital technologies; socio-environmental effectiveness
• Online Access: https://www.acjournal.ru/jour/article/view/983

This article focuses on the actual issues of attracting investment in the development of innovative electricity supply infrastructure through public-private partnership mechanisms. Based on a study of theoretical and statistical material, the main advantages of renewable energy and intelligent electricity transmission and distribution systems are shown. The effective forms of creditors' funds attraction to “green” projects within the framework of a partnership of public and private structures are defined. The approaches of the socio-environmental effects assessment of public-private partnership implementation in the electricity supply industry are identified. It is shown that by changing the format of projects execution in the analyzing industry, from the transmission of electricity to the general network to operation towards specific consumers, the partnership of government and business becomes more attractive and stimulates the development of potentially high-yield, environmentally friendly and socially expedient projects in the electricity supply sector.