“…A particularly important area of knowledge in the context of sustainable development is formed around the formation of directions and modeling of energy conservation and energy efficiency. The scientific literature covers the study of such problems and issues as the construction of predictive models (in particular, triple exponential smoothing) of energy consumption on the example of China (Zhou and Chen, 2019), the role of political and economic factors in the regulation of the energy complex (Wu, 2019), modeling equations describing the impact of environmental innovation, entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial selfefficacy on energy efficiency (Ahmed et al, 2020), methodological aspects of energy efficiency in manufacturing industries, its dependence on external factors (Tiep et al, 2021), a systematic approach to the management of emissions, waste, waste disposal, unused energy resources (Glinushkin et al, 2021), identification of reserves for minimizing energy losses in the chemical industry, in particular, using methods of neural network modeling (Shinkevich et al, 2021) etc.…”