Optimization of Developing Heat Supply System in Competitive Market Environment

Analytical Survey

Today not only Russia but other countries as well pay a lot of attention to the problems of heat supply system optimization, which is eventually aimed at optimizing the scheme of systems and flows, and determining the main design solutions (standard sizes of pipelines, pumping stations, etc.) and right moments to put the facilities into operation. Under the conditions of energy sector liberalization the optimization problem becomes significantly complicated, and its structuring starts to consider by variants depending on the way the industry is organized. The Russian scientific and practical experience in organizing and reforming the heat power industry under the conditions of market economy has been poorly studied and not systematized, and the foreign experience, as practice shows, cannot be fully adapted to the conditions of Russia. The following issues are also insufficiently studied: