The Russian and Global Experience of the Distributed Power Industry Development to be Discussed at the Polytechnical University

10 March 2011

On the threshold of the Moscow International Energy Forum «Russian Fuel and Energy Complex in the XXI Century», the Saint Pietersburg State Polytechnical University (SPbSPU) will host the Round Table «Distributed Power Industry – Reliability of Energy Supply, Energy and National Security of Russia».
This is an official preliminary event within the framework of the MIEF-2011.
The Round Table has been organized by the Russian Scientific-and-Technical Society of Power and Electric Engineers (RNTOE), the MIEF-2011 Organizing Committee, the «President-Neva» Energy Center» Company.
The event is supported by three committees of the Russian State Duma: the Power Industry Committee, the Transport Committee, and the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, as well as by the Commission on Natural Monopolies of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly.
The development of the distributed power industry is a stable world trend and one of the new and first-priority directions of the world power industry development. The distributed power industry is based on the unconventional and renewable energy sources with their development being unequalled in the world.
Today, the distributed power industry is one of the most efficient instruments of the global energy security.
More than 70 countries all over the world now have national programs for development of the distributed power industry, while the developed countries and a number of the developing countries (e.g. China, India, Brazil) have also ensured solid legislative support to this direction.
There is no such program or its legal support in Russia yet.
That is the reason why the participants of the Round Table consider it necessary to draw the attention of the federal and regional authorities, the financial and business community, as well as the scientific-and-technical society to the exceptional topicality of the distributed power industry development in Russia.
According to the participants of the Round Table, Russia should rapidly develop the distributed power industry. Mikhail Antipov, Director General of the «President-Neva» Energy Center» Company, Vice-President of RNTOE, believes that the distributed power industry has considerable advantages as compared with the centralized energy supply system. The distributed power industry also positively effects the formation of the innovative policy of Russia.
The Round Table will take place on 15 March 2011, at the address: 29 Politekhnicheskaya Street (the rector’s office conference hall, 10.00 – 14.00) Registration of participants: 9.30–10.00.