ALTERNATIVE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY IN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS: SHIFTS IN TIME AND SPACE


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The article is devoted to the features of spatial development of alternative electric power industry in Belarus. The dynamics and structure of the installed capacity of electricity generation plants, using alternative energy sources, on three territorial levels (country, region, district) were analyzed. The trends of concentration process for each of the sub-sectors of alternative power industry on the basis of the calculation of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index were identified. Transformation in the location of alternative energy sources across Belarus has been determined. There was drawn the conclusion about the strengthening of there source factor rolein the location of alternative electrical installations in the country.

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Liliya Olegovna Zhigalskaya

Belarusian State University

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Email: zhigalsk.geo1@mail.ru

Postgraduate student at the Department of Economic and Social Geography of the Faculty of Geography of the Belarusian State University

220030, Minsk, Nezavisimosti ave., 4

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