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Viktor Tkatchov, Gerhard GruhlerORCiD, Alexander Zaslavski, Andrey Bublikov, Stanislav Protsenko

• One of strategically important issues of energy security of Ukraine and the countries of Europe today is to reduce the consumption of natural gas. This task is particularly relevant in winter, when a significant amount of natural gas is consumed for heating premises. Therefore, one can predict that in the nearest future, in Ukraine and European countries, premises will be heated more frequently by electrical energy. A massive transition to electric heating of premises under conditions of the implementation of national objective in Ukraine and the countries of Europe related to a significant reduction in energy consumption necessitates to rethink the process of control over electric heating of premises. It is required that the algorithms that control power supply to premises should include mechanisms for planning the amount of electric energy consumed by an individual. This is especially true of such energy-intensive processes like heating the premises. Therefore, it is an important task for Ukraine and the countries of Europe to work out an approach for creating systems to control electric heating of premises in a house or apartment that would take into consideration not only information about the desired temperature regime, but also information on the desired amount of electricity needed for heating.