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. 1. Rasporyazhenie Pravitel’stva RF ot 13.11.2009g. No. 1715r “Ob ehnergeticheskoj strategii Rossii na period do 2030 goda” [Regulation by the Government of the Russian Federation of 13.11.2009. No. 1715r “Energy Strategy of Russia in the Period to 2030” // Sobranie zakonodatel’stva RF, 2009, No. 48, art. 5836 (in Russian).
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• energy resources
• lighting
• mineral resources used as sources of power
• power infrastructure
• electrical equipment
• consumers of electricity
• generation and use of electrical energy
• energy conservation
• uncontrolled use of electrical and thermal power
• energy consumption supervision
• violation of consumption regulations
• infringement on energy resources use