Communication process as a factor of alternative energy development in Russia and worldwide

The authors assess the impact of the communication process on comprehensive study of renewable energy sources (RES) and its actualization as a factor in the development of alternative energy in the Russian Federation.

The aspects of improving communications and involving their processes and tools (technologies, tools, formats) in the creation of alternative energy infrastructure in Russia with the aim of improving the natural landscape in the conditions of predominant development of hydrocarbon economy have been identified and presented.

The study shows the role and the importance of transmitting knowledge about the global limitations of natural forces and resources, high rate of changes in the natural and climatic conditions of living on the planet Earth for the investment of states with centralized power industry in alternative sources of electricity, their creation and integration with existing energy infrastructure based on hydrocarbon raw materials.

The mechanisms of a political, economic, energy-technological, socio-ecological and educational-informational nature are described, which, when combined, can act synergistically in the current unstable realities to change the situation dramatically for the better and to form hybrid, more balanced and safer fuel and energy solutions on our planet and in Russia in particular.

It is concluded that the communication process in the field of alternative energy, which reduces the negative destructive impact on the environment, can become a determining factor and a serious driver for the development of the renewable energy sector under certain circumstances that are highlighted as relevant in this study.

A brief and essential description of the sources of electric energy generation is given, water, sun and wind being the initial resources for their generation. In relation to each type of alternative generators, both standard and universal communication processes (means) can be used, as well as those adapted exclusively to a specific renewable resource. 

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