One of the priorities of ESCAP is to strengthen regional economic cooperation and integration on trade and infrastructure development, including transportation, information & communications technologies and energy.

The seminar featured a discussion of the issues of the regional energy connectivity development considering national and sub-regional prospects in order to increase the duration of power systems operation and ensure the cost-effectiveness of related initiatives and projects.

Ksenia Letova (Kushkina), project leader for the development of transmission lines in the North-East and Central Asia (Asian energy supergrid project https://www.skoltech.ru/pressreleases/vtoroj-mezhdunarodnyj-seminar-po-proektu-aziatskogo-energeticheskogo-koltsa/), Skoltech, represented the Russian Federation as an expert at the event and delivered a report.

Invited experts shared their experiences and expressed their views on the development of new formats of international cooperation in Asia, which will contribute to the strengthening of energy security in the region. Skoltech is actively engaged in research and development of the Asian electricity grid, therefore, is one of the event participants.

The meeting was attended by experts from the Asia-Pacific countries including China, Mongolia, Japan, as well as representatives of the International Energy Agency, the CIS Electric Power Council and other international organizations and regional research centers.​

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The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.