Siberian Energy Industry: Optimizing Its Structure

The paper analyzes a structure of the energy industry in Siberia (the Siberian Federal District) though its comparison with Russian and world ones. We show how economic efficiency of large energy producers could change if we allowed for all the social and ecologic costs. We prove that the development of a nuclear power industry is necessarily advisable to be speed up in the territory of Siberia as well as complete modernization of the coal industry, withdrawal of constructing new large hydroelectric plants there and ensuring better security of old ones, and promotion of energy generation by local minior micro-power generating systems working on traditional and alternative sources of energy.