This paper analyzes the possibility of using electric vehicles as a controlled distributed generator. Aggregation of demand and supply for electric power with the participation of batteries allows us to solve the problem of the development of the electric grid infrastructure of megacities. The absence in some areas of the city of opportunities for technological connection of consumers and significant deterioration of the network infrastructure is solved by the integration of electric vehicles in the city's power system. The article shows that information technology allows you to control the energy curve over time. At the same time, the power schedule in the loaded power centers will be deprived of pronounced highs and lows, which favorably affects the loading of generating capacities. Informatization of electric transport and the use of a digital platform will eventually become part of the concept of "smart city".

The article covers the issues of increasing the efficiency of tunneling&cleaning combines “Ural”, widely applied at domestic potash mines. It is pointed out that it is possible to provide rational parameters of the process of destroying potash arrays with cutting tools of the executive bodies of mining combines. This assumption is based on the assessment of the drivers load which will reduce the specific energy consumption for ore extraction and will reduce the number of small unenriched classes in breakage products. The authors substantiate rational regime parameters of the operation of the planetary-disk executive bodies in the Ural combines. A method for automatic control of the tunnel&cleaning combine “Ural” is proposed, which ensures the implementation of the process of destruction of the potash massif with rational cutting parameters on the basis of information on the drivers load.

The energy and its entire related infrastructure are the main drivers for a economic development and for ensuring a good level of employment. As part of a global study about international energy sector, we evaluate here the impact of technological changes on the state of the energy infrastructure. This study includes a detailed analysis of the global challenges facing the energy industry. We propose scenarios for the development of a modernized energy infrastructure with an assessment of the entire energy system. Our evaluation indicators are chosen in terms of the reliability of the energy infrastructure, of its quality, of the accidents that may happen and of the consequent environmental risks. This study is particularly adapted for forecasting the necessary measures (of technical nature, of governance kind) that have to be implemented to reduce the acceleration of the infrastructure deterioration rate. Our results reveal that the use of digital and information technologies has many positive impacts on the development and on the control of an efficient consumption of energy. In addition, our predictions, due to the further modernization of the energy sector, can contribute and help in the creation of preconditions that will be highly stimulating and profitable to the growth of investments in the energy infrastructure.