Статьи

Development of renewable energy in the East: problems and prospects

Восточная аналитика '2018, №1-2, с.121-133

 
World energy as a whole, particularly energy in oriental countries, has recently been going through the fast growth of alternative energy sources. This process was initiated by the growing price competitiveness of green technologies. Oriental countries vary in their possession of primary energy carriers and structure of their energy balances. Energy-deficit regions of East, South-East and South Asia are interested in the maximum development of all possible means of energy, preferably from renewable sources, to maintain the world’s quickest economic growth. Regions of West Asia and North Africa, which abound in cheap and accessible fossil fuel, paradoxical as it may seem, are no less interested in the accelerated progress of new energy to remedy structural economic defects fraught with lower incomes from reduced fuel exports. Actually all oriental countries have ambitious renewable energy targets