Resource potential of renewable energy of the republic of Karelia in the context of a number of world industrial development trends

Tishkov Sergey Vyacheslavovich, Volkov Alexander Dmitrievich, Scherbak Anton Pavlovich, Karginova-Gubinova Valentina Vladimirovna, Romashkina Julia Valerevna

The subject of the study is the impact of resource provision on the development of renewable energy in the regions of the world and the northern peripheral territories in particular. The object of study is the regional socio-economic system of the northern Arctic region and its energy subsystem. One of the leading trends in the development of world energy today is the transition to renewable energy sources. One of the most important factors of this transition at the regional level is the resource provision of the territory with renewable energy sources. At the same time, renewable energy resources and critical minerals for its technologies are distributed extremely unevenly on the Earth. The main trends in the development of global renewable energy are determined by the leading regions of the industry, which form the demand for technology based on their own resource base, general socio-economic development and economic needs. Peripheral regions are forced to adapt to these trends based on their own capabilities, which are largely determined by their own resource supply. In preparing the article, scientific methods of comparative analysis and synthesis were used, as well as the dialectical method. As the analysis showed, the northern peripheral region has objective opportunities to successfully adapt to existing world trends in the development of the industry, increasing the stability of the regional energy system.

Keywords:renewable energy, resource endowment, insolation, hydropower, wind energy, energy system, peripheral region.