Uploaded on 2017-03-24 by Kristina

Hi. My name is Christine. I'm from Russia. What are the dominant fossil fuels used in your country? Mineral resources in Russia - one of the main revenues from exports to date. One of the main minerals in Russia is oil. To date, Russia is one of the leaders in the world for the extraction of this mineral and the economy is largely built, based on this mineral. Another useful mineral of Russia is natural gas. Where are the dominant fossil fuels mainly used for in your country? Oil can be used for various purposes, several centuries ago in its pure form it was used as a medicine. But today this mineral has two main uses: Processing into fuel and combustible mixtures. The use of oil in the chemical industry. But most of the hydrocarbon produced, to be more precise about 66%, is exported, which can also be considered one of their uses. Gas is a hydrocarbon, its use is very similar to the use of oil, but there are differences: Use as a fuel. Gas is used in its form as fuel for CHP. Use in everyday life. Natural gas is widely used in everyday life by many of us: gas stoves, gas boilers, even lighters can be referred here. Use in the chemical industry. Throughout the country there are factories using this mineral as the main raw material. It is your task to create a new policy in order to improve the environmental friendly and sustainable sources and consumption of energy of your country. How would you do that? Think of how you can improve the sources and the consumption of energy. To date, the Government of the Russian Federation is actively working in the field of development of renewable energy sources. The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation initiated a draft state program of the Russian Federation "Energy Efficiency and Development of Energy" (2012-2020), which includes the subprogram "Development of renewable energy sources". The main activities of the subprogramme include the following: - stimulating the development of the use of renewable energy sources in the subjects of the Russian Federation; - implementation of measures to attract extrabudgetary funds for the development of renewable energy sources; - creation of infrastructural conditions for the development of the use of renewable energy sources. To implement these measures, state regulation measures are formulated, namely: 1) Subsidies: From the federal budget to the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for the implementation of regional programs for the development of the electric power industry in the use of renewable energy sources; Organizations to reimburse part of the cost of interest on loans received from Russian credit institutions for the construction of generating facilities that operate on the basis of renewable energy sources. 2) tariff regulation: Maintenance of the functioning of the mechanism of purchase and sale (supply) of capacity under contracts concluded by suppliers of electric power and capacity, produced at generating facilities operating on the basis of renewable energy sources, with organizations of commercial and technological infrastructure of the wholesale market; The inclusion in the system of regulated tariffs for retail electricity sales of electricity tariffs supplied by qualified generating facilities based on the use of renewable energy sources, to grid organizations to compensate for the losses of electricity in the networks. 3) tax regulation: The exemption of organizations from the payment of property tax in respect of newly introduced generation facilities operating on the basis of renewable energy for a period of five years; Granting an investment tax credit to organizations that invest in the construction of generating facilities operating on the basis of renewable energy sources).