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| Title of the article | Heat Energy Markets: Trends of Spatial Organization |
| Pages | 33-60 |
| Author 1 | Olga Valeryevna Dyomina Candidate Economics, Senior Research Fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153 Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Abstract | The author reviews competing forms of heat supply. It is shown that in Finland, Denmark, China and Russia the dominant form of heat supply is district heating system; in the United States and Canada the dominant form of heat supply is individual one. Using the countries’ data the author allocates 4 models of heat energy markets. The analysis is based on combinations of the following characteristics: the type of market, the orientation of market, the stage of market development, forms of state support of district heating systems and the approach to pricing. The results identified the failure of the current model of heat energy market in Russia (noncompetitive, manufacturer-oriented and evolved market with massive state support of its district heating system). The ‘target’ model of heat energy market in Russia is a model of noncompetitive, customer-oriented and evolved market with no state support of its district heating system. However, the ‘target’ model takes into account spatial heterogeneity of local heat energy markets in Russia only technically. |
| Code | 339+338 |
| DOI | 10.14530/se.2016.4.033-060 |
| Keywords | heat energy market ♦ district heating system ♦ individual heating system ♦ heat energy market’s model ♦ Russia ♦ USA ♦ Canada ♦ China ♦ Finland ♦ Denmark |
| Download | SE.2016.4.033-060.Dyomina.pdf |
| For citation | Dyomina O.V. Heat Energy Markets: Trends of Spatial Organization. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2016, no. 4, pp. 33-60. DOI: 10.14530/se.2016.4.033-060. (In Russian). |
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