Towards Climate Management of District Heating Enterprises’ Innovative Resources

Olena Borysiak, Łukasz Skowron, Vasyl Brych, Volodymyr Manzhula, Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi (), Monika Sak-Skowron and Tomasz Wołowiec
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Olena Borysiak: Education and Research Institute of Innovation, Environmental Management and Infrastructure, West Ukrainian National University, 46009 Ternopil, Ukraine
Łukasz Skowron: Faculty of Management, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
Vasyl Brych: Education and Research Institute of Innovation, Environmental Management and Infrastructure, West Ukrainian National University, 46009 Ternopil, Ukraine
Volodymyr Manzhula: Faculty of Computer Information Technologies, West Ukrainian National University, 46027 Ternopil, Ukraine
Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi: Faculty of Economics and Management, West Ukrainian National University, 46027 Ternopil, Ukraine
Monika Sak-Skowron: Faculty of Social Sciences, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Tomasz Wołowiec: Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, University of Economy and Innovation, 20-209 Lublin, Poland

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: Tracking the trend of restricted access to natural fossil energy resources determines the need to search for alternative energy sources, introducing energy-efficient technologies, and optimizing the energy supply system based on intelligent networks. Understanding district heating enterprises’ readiness to work with innovative renewable resources based on climate neutrality plays a unique role. Thus, this article is devoted to the study of the features of providing and determining the district heating enterprises’ capacity to integrate climate management of innovative resources to produce green thermal energy. The research methodology is based on a combination of systemic, process and cybernetic approaches to determining the resource sustainability of district heating enterprises for implementing climate innovations. The scientific novelty of the study lies in a comprehensive assessment of the ability of district heating enterprises to use renewable resources (biomass, waste, hydropower, solar energy, wind energy) for the production of thermal energy according to such indicators as: an indicator of balanced resource use, an indicator of climate neutrality and an indicator of economic feasibility. The results became the basis to apply the set-theoretical approach to calculate the district heating enterprises’ coefficient of resource sustainability, based on the climate management of innovative resources to produce green thermal energy. The innovation of the fuzzy sets method lies in achieving the set goal without the deep formation of a data dynamics series, particularly interval models. The added scientific value of the method to determine the resource sustainability of district heating enterprises is used to justify the feasibility of integrating climate management with the use of innovative resources through the diversification of renewable energy sources for thermal energy production. The prospects for such results are the basis for future research to develop intersectoral clustering enterprises in the green energy production chain based on a closed cycle of renewable energy resources.

Keywords: energy efficiency; climate change; energy security; renewable energy sources; green thermal energy; smart technologies; energy decarbonization; climate energy clusters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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