Implementation of energy service contracts in Russia

¹ National Research University Higher School of Economics, 190121, Soyuza Pechatnikov, 16, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
² Moscow Region State University, 105005, Radio str, 10A, Moscow, Russia
³ Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, 129337, 26, Yaroslavskoe Shosse, Moscow, Russia
⁴ Russian New University (ROSNOU), 105005, Radio str., 22, Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: markovskaya@yandex.ru

Abstract

The article discusses the features of energy service contracts as one of the types of state-business interaction in the form of a public-private partnership. The purpose of the article is to analyze the main problems accompanying the implementation of energy service contracts on the basis of a case analysis and to develop recommendations for those who are at the stage of concluding such agreements. The following causes of problems between the parties to the energy service contracts are highlighted: methodological, organizational and financial. The following recommendations are developed based on the experience of participation in forensic examinations: 1) careful study of the methodology for calculating savings using energy audit; 2) the method of calculating the economic effect should be an integral part of the energy service contract; 3) careful management of documents in order to be able to begin to resolve the conflict in the pretrial order according to the Civil Code; 4) the contractor must make sure that there are economic benefits based on detailed calculations of indicators such as payback period, net present value of the project, internal rate of return, which it is mandatory to compare with the cost of financial resources used in the project.