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AGENDA OF THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ENES 2015 Period Events 9.00-10.00 Registration, collection of guests Thursday, November 19 10.00-11.30 Plenary session - Forum opening ceremony Amphitheater “International cooperation: towards energy efficient economy and development of power-engineering” Participants: Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Sergey Sobyanin, the Mayor of Moscow Herman Gref, Chairperson of the Board, Sberbank of Russia, OJSC Rodney John Allam, The Global Energy Prize and The Nobel Prize Laureate, The Global Energy Prize International Award Committee Chairman Adnan Amin, General Director of the International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA The plenary session will host The Energy of Youth Award Ceremony. The Energy of Youth is an All- Russian contest for young scientists managed by The Global Energy Non-Profit Partnership. 10.00-11.30 Meeting of Managers of Unified Information and Settlement Centers Green Hall To facilitate calculating and reviewing utility charges, provide information follow-up on municipal charges, facilitate accounting and collection of charges for using residential and non-residential space, and other utility charges and their sharing and make those most convenient for country citizens, Unified Information and Settlement Centers have been organized in the RF regions (UI&SC). Consolidating huge volumes of information on charges, payments and debts requires building a high-quality unified database that would provide a transparent scheme of charging for housing/municipal services. UI&SC systems should present a convenient and socially focused system of payments for residents and reduce time and money spent on data processing and informing charge payers. How to make collection and payment splitting system more transparent? How to increase payment collection from population? How to optimize costs of providing unified payment documents to payers (i.e., legitimate electronic accounts)? Moderator: Natalia Nevmerzhitskaya, Chairperson of the Board, “Guaranteed Suppliers and Energy Sales Companies” Participants: Grigoriy Ryabov, Deputy head of company SBI United information calculating center of Moscow Marina Fayrushina, Advisor to the Chairman of “Inter RAO” PJSC Maxim Mironov, Director, “ERTS” LLC, Yekaterinburg Svetlana Fomina, General Director, “SGRTS” OJSC, Stavropol Aleksandr Sychkov, CEO Mosobleirc Aleksey Sitdikov, Deputy General Director GK "TNS energo" Olga Sellyakhova, The Deputy Chairman Of The Board Association of Last Resort Providers and Power Supply Companies 10.00-11.30 Meeting of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC-EMAK) re: matters Hall of Presidium concerning progress in energy management and power-engineering services During the meeting, experts from member-countries of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (Russia, Japan, China, Australia, EU countries) will discuss problems and present best international experience in introducing and implementing power management and energy service contracts. Main topics for discussion: Energy management: international experience Best practices in introducing energy management in IPEEC member-countries Best practices in implementing energy service contracts in buildings and at industrial enterprises Moderator: Dr. Patrick Crittenden, Director of the Australian research organization "Sustainable business" Participants: Alexander Mitreikin, The Director of the Department of energy saving and energy efficiency housing Vitaliy Kovalchuk, Referent of the Department of industry and infrastructure of the Government of the Russian Federation; Aleksey Konev, Director of innovation Russia Energy Agency Jonko Okava, Leading Researcher, the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan Tetsuya Maekawa, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on foreign Affairs, Deputy head of the Japan Association of energy service companies, consultant of the Department of energy solutions NIPPON KOEI Co.,Ltd; Zhao Ming, Vice Director and Secretary General of the Committee of China Association of energy service energy conservation Masayuki Devaki, Assistant Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan Marco Matteini, The expert of the United Nations industrial development organization (UNIDO) 10.00-11.30 Panel Discussion Hall of TGK-1/ Gazprom “International cooperation on the exchange of knowledge and expertise in the field of energy efficiency” Energoholding Support and development programs of global international institutions provide unique opportunities for the development of policy tools and introduction of global best practices. These programs offer financing possibilities for staff training, development of regulatory framework, implementation of demonstration projects. What are the objectives and structure of these programs? What are the most efficient models of cooperation between these programs and federal and regional authorities, professional communities? What are the incentives for the regions to participate? What criteria do program sponsors to select the regions and allocate the resources use? Organizer: UNDP/GEF Project “Energy Efficiency of Buildings in the Northwest of Russia” Moderator: Igor Kozhukhovskiy, National Project Director, Deputy General Director of FGBU “Russian Energy Agency” John O'Brien, Regional Technical Advisor UNDP-GEF Discussion participants: Marina Ol'shanskaya, Regional Adviser on Energy, infrastructure and transport technology UNDP Sergey Tulinov, Leading expert of the Secretariat of International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC) Alexander Beliy, Kazakhstan, Project manager for the development of low-carbon city in Kazakhstan Elena Rodina, Kyrgyzstan, Project manager for energy efficiency of buildings in Kyrgyzstan Vahram Jalalyan, Armenia, Project manager for energy efficiency of buildings in Armenia Vitaliy Bekker, Manager of the project "Energy efficiency of buildings in the northwest of Russia" Alexander Averchenkov, manager of Russia-UNDP Trust Fund Andrey Tamantsev, Deputy Head of the Department of Housing and Utilities Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation Goran Cacic, Project Manager for the promotion of energy efficiency in Croatia Break 12.00-13.15 Panel discussion Hall of Presidium “Progress in machine-building for power-engineering needs: role of fuel & energy companies, Russian and international equipment manufacturers” Global tensions, proliferation of restricting practices in turnover of energy efficient equipment and power- engineering technologies by third countries have clearly indicated the need to develop domestic machine-building industry. Meanwhile it has not gained its required pace, so far. It is necessary to develop our own competence & manufacturing centers, and also to promote localization of international solutions. What are equipment needs of power-engineering companies? What are real capabilities of local machine builders? What can the state do to stimulate investments in this sector? What are the prerequisites for localization of best international technologies? Moderator: Vladimir Samokhvalov, Managing Director, SBS Consulting Participants: Gleb Nikitin, First Deputy Minister, the Ministry for Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Alexander Karlin, Governor of the Altai Territory Klaus Riedle, VDI-GEU Board Member, The Global Energy 2005 Laureate. Jean-Louis Stasi, President of Schneider Electric in Russia and the CIS Valeriy Gordienko, Deputy General Director for technical policy of JSC "Russian grids" Dmitriy Grinchenko, Managing the Fund "Energy without borders" Mikhail Lifshits, General Director of JSC "ROTEC" Sergey Arkhipov, The Director of the Department of import substitution Neft Dmitriy Kochetkov, Director for cooperation with state authorities JSC UK "Group GMS" Artem Khoroshanskiy, The General Director of the company "Promtehinvest" 12.00-13.15 Meeting of electric grid companies Chief Engineers Green Hall Providing reliable service in all conditions, regardless of weather or anthropogenic factors, is the basis for activities of any grid company chief engineer. While solving that task the chief engineer is limited by lack of capital investment on the one hand, and need to reduce specific operational cost of grid maintenance, on the other hand. While understanding the inevitable need of better savings and capital investments reduction, one still has to think ahead. The question arises, what will be the future of electric grids? What will be required to operate them? Will the technologies progress to a qualitatively new level? Efficient equipment is more expensive but comes much cheaper operation-wise. And if one thinks about the grids of tomorrow, if one thinks about the consumer of tomorrow, the issue of economy should be dealt with reasonably. Oftentimes cheaper doesn’t mean better for the future. What engineering and management solutions are used across the industry today to resolve such issues? What useful lessons were learned from getting prepared for the autumn-winter season? Are any good practices available that should be adopted throughout the industry? Moderator: Pavel Golubev, General Director of CJSC "Technical inspection UES" Participants: Alexander Pilyugin, First Deputy General Director, Chief Engineer, “MRSK Center” PJSC Sergei Akhtyamov, Technical Director of "HST" Ramil Ishmaev, Deputy General Director, Technical Director, “BESK” OJSC Rashat Galimzyanov,
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