Methodological toolset for assessing the level of balance of the Eastern large region of Russia in the development of renewable energy sector.

The article covers the issue of methodological toolset for assessing the balanced socio-eco-economic development of regions, carried out in terms of the Eastern large region of Russia. Study purpose: to identify the possible impact of renewable energy sources on the increase in the level of regional balance. In terms of the Ural, the Siberian and the Far-Eastern regions, the author's methodological toolset has been suggested based on the value of the assimilation potential of natural ecosystems able to neutralize the negative material and energy fluxes of the technosphere within the region. It has been found that the functioning of conventional energy sector operating on fossil fuels, creates significant imbalances for the development of the regional socio-eco-economic system. Five regions of the Ural, six of those of the Siberian and two of those of the Far Eastern federal district are currently in an unbalanced state. In the study process, the calculations have been carried out that allowed to establish that in order to achieve socio-eco-economic balance, a significant increase in the alternative energy share in the regional energy balance would be required, that is up to 21% in the Sakhalin region and up to 93% in the Chelyabinsk region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]