Fixed assets of heat supply in the context of trends in the development of the domestic heat supply industry

The study is devoted to the analysis of fixed assets of heat supply organizations in the context of trends in the development of the domestic heat supply industry. The authors have identified the real problems and challenges of domestic heat supply. The authors have identified the directions of development to ensure an increase in the reliability and efficiency of the heat supply industry. The authors analyzed the trends in the development of the industry, including the priority of the development of cogeneration, enshrined in the Energy Strategy of the Russian Federation, and reviewed the previous period of “boilerization” of the country's territories. Operational efficiency reflects the ability of an organization to effectively perform its functions and achieve its goals in heat supply. The key components determining the operational efficiency of heat supply organizations are technical efficiency, which expresses the state of fixed assets (primarily heat supply sources and heating networks), energy efficiency, financial and managerial efficiency. Heat supply in Russia is traditionally divided into two segments: centralized and decentralized. In the Russian heating sector, various sources of thermal energy are represented, depending on the density of development, climatic features of the region, availability of natural resources and historical features of the region's development. A significant part of heat supply organizations at this stage of development is characterized by low operational efficiency, expressed in a high level of depreciation of fixed assets, low energy efficiency, low motivated managerial efficiency, expressed in the lack of coordination between heat supply organizations operating within the region and insufficient measures to modernize and replace fixed assets.

fixed assets, management, heat supply, heat networks, cogeneration, investments