As China is dependent on oil and gas imports to maintain its high growth rates, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Central Asia have become increasingly important for the country's economic development. In May 2014, China and Russia signed a new gas deal, for example, and in recent...

Nowadays Russian government pays a lot of attention to solutions of the high energy intensive production system in the country. The key factors of low efficiency of regional energy saving programs is the lack of approved standards and algorithms in the area of energy audit. In practice, both...

Regulators help ensure access to and quality of public utilities, facilitate investment and protect market neutrality. Good internal and external governance of regulators is crucial to ensure that they fulfil these functions and perform effectively. In this sense, the 2012 OECD Recommendation of...