The scientific task of increasing the local communities' competencies in energy efficiency projects of municipal infrastructure is set. The model of levels for local community competencies in energy efficiency projects is proposed. The model consists of three levels - "initial", "in development", "developed". Each level of the model is characterized. The method of assessing the competence level of the local community in energy efficiency projects, as well as the method of developing the competence of the local community in energy efficiency projects is proposed. Perspectives of further research in the chosen direction are outlined.
Introductory part. The development of the country at the present stage can be characterized as advancement through reforms. One of these reforms, which is carried out, and quite successfully –is a local reform. However, one of the most important issues remains the energy efficiency of the economy as a whole, and the energy efficiency of the municipal economy in particular. Therefore, an important and relevant scientific and practical direction is the preparation and implementation of energy efficiency projects for municipal infrastructure. Such projects require the use of scientific and practical developments at the junction of three branches – the subject area (energy efficiency technologies), the field of project and program management, IT technologies and tools, used in management activities. Such a combination of industries is somewhat unique, so the scientific instruments that will be developed for the described projects have the foundation for being characterized by scientific novelty.
Let's describe the legislative and scientific basis for the implementation of energy efficiency projects for
municipal infrastructure. One of the threats to energy security in the Strategy of National Security of Ukraine [
Recent studies on the implementation of energy efficient solutions [
Project management standards [
Energy efficiency projects of municipal infrastructure considered as a separate class project authors in previous
studies [
Main part. Let’s highlight those aspects of municipal energy infrastructure efficiency projects that require the use of IT components: - a base of technologies and technological decisions for transfer of technologies; - information mining methods for improving energy efficiency; - communication system of the project (document flow system); - network scheduling system; - system of electronic trading (tenders); - flexible project management tools.
It should be noted that for the project described, there is only a first aspect (the basis of technology and technology solutions for the transfer of technology). Other aspects can be compared to the level of literacy in the field of modern IT technologies. However, the competence of the local community has developed in these main directions: specialization project, general IT competence, competence in the field of IT project management tools.
From these positions for municipal energy infrastructure projects, we propose: - the model of levels of local community competence in energy efficiency projects (subject area, project management industry, ownership of IT tools); - the method of competence level assessment; - the method for developing the competence of the local community.
The model of local community competence levels in energy efficiency projects is presented in Fig. 1. Description of the model elements is presented in Table 1.
І «Initial» Knowledge of basic technologies
ІІ «In development»
Ability to find energyefficient technologies that are appropriate to real conditions - Completeness of technological
directions coverage - Continuous improvement of the search and evaluation system
- Self-development of technological improvements
Let’s also describe the local community competence development method in energy efficiency projects in the following stages:
- analysis of the state of local community competence development at the current moment (for example, based on the assessment of competence);
- analysis of the competence development areas (in the field of: subject area, IT industry, project management, psychology, communication, motivation, etc.); - analysis of competence development trends of each direction; - innovations identification that are appropriate for learning and implementation in the local community; - recommendations analysis for enhancing the local community competence, generated on the basis of the competence assessment results; - necessary directions selection for the development of the local community competence; - synthesis of the necessary sets of knowledge and skills that need to be developed in the local community; - development of the project for enhancing the local community competence; - realization of the project of enhancing the local community competence; - project results analysis, learning lessons, formulating promising directions for further development of the local community competence.
Conclusions. Model of community competence levels, the method of assessing the level of competence of the local community in energy efficiency projects, the method of developing the competence of the local community in energy efficiency projects that have been developed, promote its competence. In turn, enhancing the local communities competence will increase the effectiveness of energy efficiency projects implementation. And this, in turn, will contribute to accelerating the development of the Ukrainian economy. Consequently, models and methods for developing the local community competence in energy efficiency projects are of great scientific and practical importance. Further research can be devoted to the formalization of the proposed methods. p.