Ilsur Metshin about energy efficiency

Despite the fact that our planet is large, it is not boundless. A new path to economic management is connected with the understanding that resources are limited. The rate of resource consumption should not exceed the rate of their renewal. This is taught by an example of those civilizations that have disappeared now, which in the course of their development destroyed their ecosystem. Let me remind you that the felling of trees on Easter Island went faster than the trees grew, and after all, the inhabitants did not have wood even to build a canoe and go fishing.

Today, the main drivers of the problems facing humanity are population growth and consumption growth. Never before did humanity itself increase in quantity by a factor of 2.5 in the lifetime of only one generation, and never before did it take so many resources and the “waste”, returned to the environment, for its life-support. As a result, the climate change and the depletion of natural resources are among the most important global problems that are urgent for all countries and regions without exception. The answer to the shortage of energy resources should be a comprehensive and uncompromising policy of energy saving and energy efficiency, implemented at the level of each state, city, and person.

However, it is impossible to achieve energy saving and energy efficiency to the full, if this ideology is not understood and taken by the inhabitants of the city. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the general culture of energy consumption. The education of the energy saving culture should begin with a kindergarten and continue in the school. Saving energy should be not only profitable but also prestigious. In addition to bringing to responsibility for violation of established norms, economic incentives should be considered for enterprises and households conducting energy-saving measures. For example, in the form of tax incentives. It is also necessary to develop the industry of energy-saving technologies, refine the legal basis for the development of energy services, and create a system for the disposal of energy-saving equipment that has reached its useful life, which will be modern and convenient for the population and business.

Energy efficiency is an objective and conscious necessity of the present day, an indispensable condition for increasing the competitiveness of the economy, saving budget funds, and minimizing the growth of population payments for communal services.