Russia Power 2014 and HydroVision Russia 2014 summed up the results of the events. During 3 busy working days the events jointly attracted 5,345 attendees from 55 countries and 145 exhibitors. Some 70 per cent of companies which took part in the event, have rebooked to come back next year.
In 2015 Russia Power will return to Moscow under the new name of POWER-GEN RUSSIA bringing the legacy of world’s recognized events such as POWER-GEN EUROPE and POWER-GEN INTERNATIONAL as well as keeping 12 years of Russia Power history.
Over 100 speakers covered the critical issues of Russian and international power markets within traditional and new formats of conference program.
The conference was divided into 28 sessions over 3 tracks – joint strategic track and 2 dedicated tracks for Russia Power and HydroVision Russia and attracted 599 delegates. The program offered a wide range of activities such as round tables, panel discussions, workshops in order to make another step for promoting modernization, efficiency and innovation in Russia. The live panel discussion within the joint plenary session highlighted the first day of the event. Maria Stroeva, RBC TV channel, moderated a panel of experts including Alexander Chuvaev, General Director, JSC Fortum, Alexander Shwab, Senior Vice President, Andritz Hydro, Leonid Chernigov, General Director, NPF Rakurs LLC, Alexander Shwab, Senior Vice President, Andritz Hydro and Hando Sutter, Regional Manager, Nord Pool Spot. Opinion leaders discussed possible ways of developing the Russian power market in the post reform period.
Alexander Chuvaev of JSC Fortum, commented, “Reform of the power industry was based on 3 pillars: the first one is the wholesale market liberalization, and the government has kept its word – the market began to work, became more or less transparent. The second and the basic pillar is the capacity supply agreement which has been kept until today. The third basic pillar is securing equal profitability on gas for all the market players. It means, that the profit based on a gas price was supposed to grow as it did in Europe. It doesn’t mean that the price itself should be the same as in Europe: considering a securing of the equal profitability, the gas price would still remain at least two times lower.”
For the first time Russia Power and HydroVision Russia quests had an opportunity to study at the unique learning session, the Executive Program which was developed together with HEC Paris, School of Management and MAKO Its aim was to to show what skills power business leaders should have to meet today’s global energy market challenges.
On the final day of the show, conference delegates had a unique opportunity to speak to representatives of the whole value chain: generators, suppliers and consumers. The strategic session hosted by Irina Esipova, General Director, Center of TEK Communications Development, gathered a wide panel of experts who shared their views on cooperation within the industry taking into consideration, the interests of all parties.
Russia Power under new name POWER-GEN RUSSIA and HydroVision Russia will return to Moscow on 3-5 March 2015 bringing together industry leaders to exchange innovation ideas and approaches to power industry development.
Quotes:
Elena Kulesova, Head of Exhibitions and Conferences Department, JSC Power Machines
“We have taken part in the exhibition almost from the very beginning of Russia Power. We consider Russia Power is very useful thus we plan to participate in the future. We like both conferences in which our technical experts participate and exhibition where we present our company”.
Kristina Galyuk, Head of Press Office, JSC TYAHMASH
“We have participated in the Russia Power for 6 years. This year we take part in HydroVision Russia for the first time and we have already decided to take part next year. Our major partners and customers also attended the event. JSC TyazhMash CEO Andrey Trifonov has met with our key customers to discuss opportunities to extend cooperation with them”.
Ella Burnatseva, Communications Head, Siemens AG Energy Sector
“We have exhibited in Russia Power for 10 years since this is a relevant event for our company. We consider our participation in the event as an opportunity to promote our company, the latest solutions as well as a possibility to highlight the topics critical for media and delegates.”
Zhang Pan, Marketing Department Head, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems
“During the event we managed to speak to many potential customers representing various companies. We exchanged contacts and for sure we will keep in touch for further discussion of our cooperation”.
Svetlana Bogorodskaya, Organizing Development CEO Assistant, TMM Energobud
“This is the first international event that we have taken part in. Previously we exhibited only in the Ukraine. We were highly impressed by the scale of the event. We hope that through the exhibition we will be able to find new partners and to tell the audience about our company. Next year we will come back to Russia Power”.
Mikhail Makarov, Sales Manager, Energy Sector, KSB LLC
“We met not only with generators but with sub suppliers also. We had very productive time at the event. We would like to discuss a modernization of existing pump units for hydro, thermal and electric power plants. Our company offers the dedicated solutions for these plants thus we would like to evaluate a demand level and also to discuss this topic at the dedicated conference session”.
For more information, please visit www.russia-power.org and www.hydrovision-russia.com
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