Bìznes Inform (May 2018)
The Foreign Experience of Organization of Activity of Heat Supply Enterprises at the Local Level
Abstract
The article is aimed at studying the practice of organization of activity of heat supply enterprises in developed countries at local level. As a result of the research it was determined that the problems in heat supply are international, and those, which now arise before the Ukrainian thermal power industry, already had to be solved in the European countries. The reforms carried out therein have led to the fact that at almost all European thermal power companies the main directions were modernization of enterprises on the principles of innovation policy, restructuring of management practices, and weighted (flexible) tariff policy. It is substantiated that sustainable development of thermal power engineering at the local level requires transition from the model, in which the priority element is production, to the model, where the main attention is paid to the consumer, that is the transition to the management of interrelationships. And one of the basic principles of reforming and development of heat supply should be the renewed mechanism of cooperation between all stakeholders. Prospect for further research in this direction is to determine the peculiarities of the implementation of this model in Ukraine.
