Artificial electric lighting in buildings is an important element of any electrical system. The ample use of artificial electric lighting in modern society is indisputable. Apart from its main purpose, if legally designed and installed, electrical lighting promotes the stable work and development of a country’s power engineering. Effective use of energy resources and the capacities of power engineering are keys for the sustainability of economic growth. An increased demand in energy resources has provoked uncontrolled energy consumption and violations in fuel extraction as well as in fuel or electricity use. In the article, the authors try to give an analysis of such violations, which in its turn allows disclosing a few legal loopholes in this economic sector. The owner of energy resources suffers great damages from unauthorized connections to electrical and gas networks. Perpetrators of electrical and thermal energy consumption regulations are subject to civil, criminal, and administrative law. Nevertheless, the authors’ analysis of cases in the courts shows that a great number of them are seldom inquired into, and most perpetrators are very rarely held liable. The aim of the article is to analyze the national legislation to withstand the illegitimate energy resources consumption, to bring to light the issues in this economic sector and to suggest some ways of their solution.

The monograph is devoted to the development of practical recommendations of an institutional and legal nature aimed at improving the energy efficiency of the energy sector of the economy in the conditions of digitalization and economic restrictions. It contains scientific and practical proposals aimed at developing the activities of economic entities of the Russian energy market, energy infrastructure, and focuses on the problems of the state of the Russian energy sector, strategic planning and legal regulation of activities aimed at energy conservation and energy efficiency in the Russian Federation. It is intended for teachers, students and anyone interested in energy supply and energy efficiency.