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ENERGY EFFIENCY IN RUSSIA - EXTREMELY TIMELY EVENT!
ALEXANDER ISHKOV, Deputy Head, Department of gas transportation, storage & usage, Head of the Division for Energy Saving & Ecology of OAO “GAZPROM” has recently joined the Forum as KEYNOTE SPEAKER! Other recent speaker confirmations include: TIMUR IVANOV, General Director, RUSSIAN ENERGY AGENCY (REA) under the Ministry of Energy REA is an official partner of the Forum! Please see the website "Energy efficient Russia". REMIR MUKUMOV, Deputy General Director, OAO Corporation "URAL INDUSTRIAL - URAL POLAR" Russia’s President Medvedev has affirmed that energy efficiency and energy conservation are among the 5 strategic priorities for Russia’s technological development. In November 2009 the Russian Duma passed the Law “On energy conservation and increasing energy efficiency…” In 2010 a Coordination Council for Energy Efficiency & Energy Conservation within the all-Russia party “United Russia” was created and began to operate. All of these measures are clear indicators that there is a great need to discuss how to improve energy efficiency in Russia, and to exchange practical experience and know-how already gathered in this field. Adam Smith Forum on Energy Efficiency in Russia will provide an ideal platform for such crucial and productive information exchange! “Which directions (for the so-called technological breakthrough) do I suggest we work on? … The first direction – is energy efficiency and energy conservation…” Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia Introduction to the meeting of the Commission on modernisation and technological development of the Russian economy. 18 June 2009 |
