Open AccessFormation of the fuel and energy complex of Eastern Siberia in the 1960s–2010s: construction of energy enterprises
Author(s) -
O A Uvarova,
O E Naumova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/880/1/012106
Subject(s) - coal , general partnership , hydropower , economic shortage , business , electricity , investment (military) , economy , fossil fuel , production (economics) , natural resource economics , industrial organization , commerce , economics , government (linguistics) , engineering , politics , political science , finance , waste management , linguistics , philosophy , electrical engineering , law , macroeconomics
The article discusses the formation experience of the fuel and energy complex of Eastern Siberia. Based on the analysis of a large number of archival materials, it is shown how enterprises of oil and gas production, coal industry, and hydropower were built under the conditions of the controlled and planned economy. The geography of Eastern Siberia contemplated the construction of powerful industries, which became natural monopolies under the new economic conditions. The coal industry was mostly privatized. Today, the enterprises producing and processing oil, gas, and hydropower operate in the frame of private-public partnership. Siberia has never experienced a shortage of electricity. Its cost was low; therefore, the enterprises were highly profitable. The market economy identified new trends: strengthening of the export-orientedness of the enterprises in the energy sector; attraction of foreign investment into organizing the construction of the newest enterprises; rapid introduction of new technologies; and increase in the uneven development of the region. Summary of historical experience can serve as a source of understanding of modern economic realities.