Economical mechanism for the reform of regional heat supply systems

Abstract

We offer a mechanism to reform the regional heat supply system, which is based upon the principles of economic efficiency of implementing investment projects in heat supply, as well as on the complex approach to the reformation and availability of the heat supply services for socially unprotected consumers. The basis of the mechanism is the methodology for assessing the economic efficiency of complex programs of heat supply reformation in municipal institutions, which includes both the projects of resource and energy saving in heat supplying companies and the projects of reducing heat energy consumption for the end consumer. We have developed the mathematic model that enables the assessment of the possibility and feasibility of attracting private investment to the complex programs given. We have made an economic assessment of the feasibility of the complex program for a concrete municipal institution, which aims at reducing payments for the consumer of heat energy. © 2014 WIT Press.