“…As shown in Table 1, unlike the division-which is present in the existing literature-between the function of provision of stability and high effectiveness of the energy system (Chutcheva et al, 2022;Ragulina et al, 2022) and the function of environmental protection (Kukushkina et al, 2022;Vorozheykina, 2022;Yankovskaya et al, 2022), this paper proposes addressing these functions in a comprehensive manner. Unlike Eales et al (2020), Rybak et al (2021), andVillavicencio Calzadilla andMauger (2018), we determined a weakness of hypothesis H1. Using the example of the case experience of the countries of BRICS, we did not discover the negative consequences of the development of clean energy with regard to the accessibility and sufficiency of energy in the society and the economy.…”