Assessment and analysis of energy infrastructural potential of Russian regions

The paper is devoted to the questions of assessment and analysis of the energyinfrastructural potential of Russian regions. The characteristics of energy infrastructure in a region play an important role in the evaluation of investment attractiveness of potential places for industrial investment. This paper describes the author's methodical approach to the assessment and analysis of the energy-infrastructural potential of the regions by plotting energy-infrastructural maps and by building a matrix of the regions. It allows distinguishing similar territorial entities based on the indicators of energy infrastructure with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the selection procedure for potential places for industrial investment. The developed method was tested on the example of assessment and analysis of characteristics of Russian region’s energy infrastructure. That resulted in the construction of rating of the regions by the level of energy-infrastructural potential and generating of energy-infrastructural maps. The obtained results have theoretical and practical importance and can be used in the development of activities in the field of energy efficiency in the regional context and in the analysis of the energy-infrastructural capacity of potential locations for industrial investments.