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Skoltech Center for Energy Systems took part in the UN’s round table on Power Trade and Grid Connectivity in North-East Asia

IMG_0162On 17 September in Irkutsk, Russia, the Skoltech Center for Energy Systems took part in the round table on Power Trade and Grid Connectivity in North-East Asia. The round table discussion was organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) (in partnership with the Energy Systems Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ESI SB AS) and Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI)).

The meeting was attended by approximately 32 governmental officials, representatives of business and academia, as well as experts from electricity sectors of the Russian Federation, China, Mongolia and the Republic of Korea. It was also attended by resource persons from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The objectives of the round table were to augment the opportunities to facilitate energy cooperation in the electricity sector through multilateral channels, to identify benefits and challenges, as well as measures of regional cooperation to promote power trade and grid connectivity for NEA economies.

Ksenia Kushkina, manager of the Asian Energy Supergrid project, represented Skoltech at the roundtable “New Grid Connectivity Projects for North-East Asia”, where she presented results of the research conducted in accordance to Russian Government’s order (dated 06.08.2013) by SkolTech Center for Energy Systems in conjunction with the Irkutsk Institute of Energy Systems and support of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).

Participants from other countries, like China, Mongolia, South Korea and others, noted high importance of grid connection studies, but also pointed out the lack of coordination mechanism or body to address political issues such as implementing and coordination of NEA regional Power market. The participants suggested to use international organizations, like ESCAP, to create such a mechanism and a roadmap to provide a vector of the regional grid interconnection implementation process.

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