By the end of New Labour's first term four central objectives of energy policy had become established: cheap energy, the relief of fuel poverty, a major reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, and energy security through maintaining a wide diversity of primary fuel supplies, all to be achieved...

New challenges in energy system management that arose in the course of market-oriented reforms carried out in Russia are considered in the paper. The present management structure of Moscow energy system is described. Fundamental problems that reduce the management efficiency and performance in...