ENERGY COMPONENT OF UKRAINIAN REGIONS’ ECONOMIC SECURITY

The article highlights the basic concepts of energy security of regions. Factors influencing the energy security of the regions are considered, they can be divided into two groups: factors that can be eliminated or localized in the current and strategic period, that are directly in the field of management (these include energy shortages, man-made accidents, financial problems); factors whose management period is based on the time of strategic programs (period of hypotheses) and which are managed only indirectly through the concepts of development (these include limited resources, environmental problems, etc.). The economic threats to the energy security of the regions are highlighted: lack of investment resources necessary for the development, modernization and technical support of the normal operation of the energy complex; financial instability of ensuring the functioning of the energy complex, provision of fuel resources, materials and components to support technological processes, stability of payment of all current costs; breach of economic ties; inefficient use of fuel and material resources; excessively high prices for fuel and material resources; high levels of monopoly of producers, suppliers and distributors of energy and fuel resources; technical constraints arising from lack of funds; imbalance of production and consumption (FER), shortage of energy capacity, insufficient network capacity. The main characteristics of the energy security system of the regions, which should be emphasized in the formation of the management mechanism: energy saving as a characteristic of organizational and technical policy of energy security in the framework of social responsibility of the subjects; energy efficiency as a characteristic of economic policy to ensure the optimal balance of energy supply and energy intensity and energy consumption of production systems; energy competitiveness as a characteristic of political regulation of consumption of energy resources of the region. The mechanism of energy security management of regions, which should be based on the most important principles and their combination, is analyzed.