Last Friday, the Russian Energy Week drew to a close. A total of 2,500 participants from 80 countries attended. Thirty-two sessions took place – experts from the Global Energy Association took part in one in eight of the sessions.
Gazprom is to analyse the effect on climate of social expansion of Russia’s gas supply system.
Russia is planning to become a carbon-neutral country by 2060, President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Energy Week forum.
“For our country, the energy transition is a great opportunity to remain among the technological leaders as well as a chance for possible diversification of traditional energy and development of new energy,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told a session of the Russian Energy Week’s Youth Day entitled ‘Dialogue among equals’.
In two nominations, the winners were the teams that developed algorithms that allow selecting locations for charging stations for electric vehicles and managing the natural gas distribution system.
Choosing one or another energy resource is not up to regulators or producers, but rather consumers, the CEO of Russia’s SUEK energy company told a Russian Energy Week session.
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