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Digital Technologies as a Driver of the Innovative Development of FEC. Legal Regulation Problems and Prospects
 
PIIS231243500022494-1-1
DOI10.18572/2410-4396-2021-4-107-113
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Vadim V. Shabunya 
Occupation: Assistant Professor of the Department of Administrative and Energy Law
Affiliation: Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameEnergy law forum
EditionIssue 4
Pages107-113
Abstract

Digitalization of the society and high speed of the development and introduction of digital technologies in the modern life is currently a world tendency. The majority of countries of the world have moved to building of digital economy elements in different spheres of public administration, science, business and industry including the fuel and energy complex. This article reviews the main areas of the application of digital technologies in FEC, problems and prospects of digitalization of the energy industry, the system of regulatory acts governing the issues of the application of digital technologies in FEC.

 

Keywordsenergy law, digital technologies, digital economy, energy security, artificial intelligence, blockchain
Received01.12.2021
Publication date20.12.2021
Number of characters22201
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1 The introduction of digital technologies in various spheres of public relations (digitalization) is currently a world trend.
2 Many countries of the world make different segments of their economy digital by large-scale deployment of information and communications technologies to improve public administration processes, raise workforce productivity, increase efficiency of business processes and reduce production costs.
3 According to the international experts’ estimates, humanity is now on the verge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (industry 4.0) that on the one hand will lead the human civilization to the whole new level of life and on the other hand will present a challenge to the system of cultural and social values and links existing in the modern society, which can entail a change in the social paradigm.
4 Considering the situation in the world economy, the digital transformation of energy companies, raising of their performance and cost reduction become of crucial importance to preserve the position of national FEC companies on the world energy markets.
5 It seems obvious that it is impossible to be a leader in any industry of the economy at the domestic or international level without innovative, breakthrough technologies.
6 In this respect, the developers have introduced the term “breakthrough technologies” in the updated Energy Strategy of Russia for the Period up to 2035 (the “Energy Strategy of Russia”) and named their main categories in the document.
7 In particular, the Energy Strategy of Russia determines renewable energy sources and energy accumulators, network technologies in the electrical energy industry including activeadaptive networks, distributed generation, informational and technological platforms for planning (forecasting) and management of the energy infrastructure and power receivers of electrical energy consumers able to ensure minimization of cost of consumed energy resources by optimization of modes of operation of consumers’ technological equipment and able to participate in the wholesale market, as technologies affecting organizational and technological changes in the management and functioning of electrical energy systems and facilitating the transition of the energy industry to the new technological basis (the so-called “energy transition”).
8 Almost all digital economy instruments (digital technologies) can currently be in demand in the FEC sphere: neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum technologies, digital financial technologies, virtual and augmented reality, wireless communications technologies, technologies of the Industrial Internet of Things, Big Data, distributed register systems (blockchain), 3D printing, unmanned vehicles and drones, smart sensors, robotization of production, additive technologies, digital twins of FEC facilities.
9 Digital technologies in FEC is a valuable and an extremely relevant resource for the solution of issues of competition development, restraint of the growth of prices on electrical energy and other energy resources, raising of reliability and continuity of energy supply, reduction of accident rate at FEC facilities, problems of energy supply and raising of energy efficiency.
10 Deployment of digital technologies in order to raise the efficiency of production and processing of energy resources, reduce the energy resource consumption level, reduce of the volume of burned mineral resources and harmful emissions to the atmosphere will make a positive impact on the environmental situation in the country.
11 Digital technologies are widely used in the electrical energy industry, pilot smart grid projects have been launched, automatic emergency response and relay protection system are actively used at facilities of the electrical energy industry, systems of remote control and telemechanics have been introduced (automated systems for commercial accounting of energy consumption, automated technological process control systems).
12 Newtechnologiesof distributedgeneration, microgeneration, managed electrical energy consumption make it possible to create new conditions for the functioning of competitive retail electrical energy markets.
13 Some measures facilitating the innovative development and digitalization of the electrical energy industry are performed within the framework of the implementation of the action plan (the “roadmap”) of the National Technological Initiative in the EnergyNet sphere. In particular, priority is given to intellectual technologies and means of monitoring and diagnostics of the state of equipment in energy systems, new technical means for the creation of intellectual energy systems including a digital substation, “virtual power station”, intellectual electrical energy (power) recording systems, means of intellectual management of end electrical energy consumption (“energy Internet”) and means of accumulation of large electrical energy volumes.
14 Challenging aspects and tasks of the legal support of the use of digital technologies in the energy industry is sufficiently detailed in the works by V.V. Romanova [1].

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