Dushanbe, Tajikistan
JEL Q42 Alternative Energy Sources
JEL O14 Industrialization • Manufacturing and Service Industries • Choice of Technology
JEL R11 Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
JEL O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences • Diffusion Processes
Energy is an inseparable attribute of productive components. The article considers the need to identify energy production as a fundamental and independent factor. The law of conservation of energy formed an effective demand for the development of the process of searching and using alternative energy sources. However, there is an issue of limited resources of energy. Recent years there is an increasing interest in the study of energy as an economic category. There are many scientific problems of green energy, renewable energy resources, sources, human intellectual energy, etc. The research highlights the role and importance of energy in the industrial development of the Republic of Tajikistan, the correlative relationships between GDP production and electricity consumption per capita, the process of development and placement of productive by regions of the country. The research justifies a number of proposals on the efficient use of energy and formation of energy clusters in the country.
factors of social production; energy as an economic category; energy carriers; energy system; industrial and technological revolution
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