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At present, in the energy sector, the development and introduction of clean, safe, affordable energy-efficient technologies requires significant efforts and long time even for small scale projects. Sustainable and efficient use of energy requires increasing the share of renewable energy sources, use of clean generation technologies. Most countries face the following energy problems: the use of environmentally harmful energy sources that pollute the atmosphere, periodic interruptions in the electricity supply, heat...

Final energy consumption in Latvian households fluctuated massively because of serious political and social changes in the country between 1990 and 2015; this study explores why final energy consumption trends in Latvia during the last decades, meanwhile in Europe is the opposite situation observed. This paper investigates the downward trend in average household energy consumption of the last 30 years and shows the impact of social factors towards energy consumption. The method applied portrays factors such as lev...

Strategic objective of state policy is reliable providing the country with fuel and energy resources, increase in efficiency of their use and decrease in anthropogenous impact of fuel and energy complex on the environment. The appropriate measures aimed at providing energy saving and increase in energy efficiency are necessary for achievement of this purpose; ensuring need of domestic market for reliable, high-quality and economically reasonable supply with the electric power and heat; development of oil and gas a...