Ievdokimov V. Mechanisms of state regulation of the development of electric power engineering

Object of study: state regulation of the electric power industry in Ukraine and abroad. Objective: to determine the role and functions of the state in regulating and ensuring the development of market relations in electric power industry, to develop the practical recommendations concerning improvement of the mechanisms of the state regulation of this industry in Ukraine. Methods: formal-logical, systemic-structural and historical analysis, synthesis, induction, abstraction, modelling, systemic-functional, deductive. Results: the theoretical principles have been grounded, the practical recommendations and approaches to improving the mechanisms of the state regulation of electric power industry development of Ukraine, taking into account the foreign experience in this sphere, have been developed. Novelty: the scientific and theoretical approaches to the improvement of the state regulation system of the electric power industry development in the context of integration and concentration processes have been proposed; the methodological approaches to the strategy of the electric power industry development of Ukraine via the introduction of the full-scale electricity market have been improved; the theoretical foundations of the state regulation of the electric power industry in terms of contemporary challenges have been further developed, etc. The results have been implemented in the activities of the National Commission for the state regulation in the spheres of energy and communal services, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine and the State Enterprise "Energorynok". Areas of use: public authorities.