Abstract
The features of integration processes taking place within the framework of the creation and functioning of the common electric power market of the Eurasian Economic Union discussed. Topical issues of ensuring the economic security of the national economy are solved through the activation of integration processes. The greatest importance in this issue is assigned to the problem of ensuring energy security. The purpose of the study is to form priority directions for the further development of the common electric power market within the Union. To this end, the experience of creating such foreign associations was studied; obstacles to further development of integration were identified; the peculiarities of the energy market of Kazakhstan as one of the leading member countries of the Union were studied; opportunities for the development of national economies were identified. The paper uses methods of comparative analysis, as well as methods of generalization and analogy, comparative and expert assessments, statistical data processing. Based on the compiled SWOT analysis, the paper offers recommendations on the implementation of opportunities for further development of the national economy within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union.