A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

Pavel Snikkars

Pavel Snikkars

Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Association "NP Market Council"
Quotes
12.10.2023
Russian Energy Week 2023
Cryptocurrency Mining as Seen from the Energy Sector: Choosing between Regulation and Free Rein
We will cancel and introduce discriminatory access to this type consumers [illegal miners. – Ed.] in some territories. The project is already being developed. It will be subject to criticism, but we don’t know how else to react
12.10.2023
Russian Energy Week 2023
Cryptocurrency Mining as Seen from the Energy Sector: Choosing between Regulation and Free Rein
Mining is not defined, it has no regulatory description, although there is a concept of digital assets
12.10.2023
Russian Energy Week 2023
Cryptocurrency Mining as Seen from the Energy Sector: Choosing between Regulation and Free Rein
We don’t know how to build stations quickly. The whole world does not know how to build stations quickly; any stations
12.10.2023
Russian Energy Week 2023
Cryptocurrency Mining as Seen from the Energy Sector: Choosing between Regulation and Free Rein
New power supplies and connections should not affect consumers. <…> We are facing a sudden increase in energy consumption. <…> The natural increase in consumption, which was supposed to happen in the Irkutsk region over four years, occurred in one year. After that, we started limiting the connection of other consumers. <…> We will build generation facilities in Siberia, where the deficit is estimated at one thousand 225 megawatts. <…> But until 2029, we have come up with an economic incentive – increased transmission tariff for a certain group of consumers
12.10.2023
Russian Energy Week 2023
Energy Development: Who Will Invest?
Our task is to make competitive trade so that there is an optimal burden on consumers. Again, to do it quite openly and transparently
12.10.2023
Russian Energy Week 2023
Energy Development: Who Will Invest?
The goal is to provide affordable and guaranteed electricity to both domestic and foreign consumers – we must not forget about export opportunities. Then you start to have constraints within country policy and domestic policy – this [one of the constraints, – Ed.] is, of course, low-carbonisation
11.10.2023
Russian Energy Week 2023
Advancing Hydropower: From Plans to Implementation
We do not have a single power plant built by a private investor – all of them were built with government support measures. <...> There are power plants that have become private, but they were built by government decisions with budget funding, taking into account all effects
11.10.2023
Russian Energy Week 2023
Advancing Hydropower: From Plans to Implementation
It seems to me that the most important commodity of the new century will be water. Indeed, we have not realized Russia’s hydro potential, but we are trying to catch up. <...> The construction of HPPs in terms of spatial development and socio-economic impact on the whole territory has a large coverage in such areas as agriculture, transport, energy, and navigation
09.06.2023
2023
Eurasian Water and Energy Complex
Today, [needs – ed.] will primarily be met by energy sources that are the fastest to produce. These are renewable energy sources, such as wind and the sun. How are these characterized? They typically involve high capital expenditure in terms of equipment. At the same time, these energy sources offer rather fast production timeframes. <...> We are already thinking about how to strike a good balance in this mix and regulate it. Serious growth will lead to an electricity shortage, and a shortage of capacity within these power systems
09.06.2023
2023
Eurasian Water and Energy Complex
We can see that electricity consumption is growing steadily. <...> We have exhausted the capacity of the grid. The cooling of relations between countries has meant that inter-network reserves could not be built in advance. The way energy sources are distributed across the energy systems in Central Asia is also not uniform. In one place there is more hydropower, in another there is coal generation, and in another there is a mix of coal, gas, hydro-, and – possibly – nuclear power
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Mining Growth in Russia’s Digital Economy
We suggested that taxation should be based on the consumed kilowatt/hour. We use meters in houses – it is exactly the same approach with microgeneration. We allowed all citizens of our country put up solar panels and wind turbines at home – all, who have such opportunity. And we said, "If you sell up to 15 kilowatts of electricity, you are not subject to income tax
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Mining Growth in Russia’s Digital Economy
This type of activity needs to exist officially. It must be an entrepreneurial activity. They should have a formal entrepreneurial and taxation category, so that people can clearly state that they are engaged in entrepreneurial activity, the rates are such and such, with such and such rules. Do you want long-term solutions? Let us negotiate, let us sign long-term contracts
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Green Energy: Current Challenges
Personally, in my opinion, when it comes to the energy sector, energy security is, of course, the priority. Our task, as power engineers, is to ensure affordable, reliable, uninterrupted, high-quality power supply for both industry and citizens. Undoubtedly, this issue is more important than all others
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Green Energy in the Far East. Supplying Energy to Remote and Isolated Areas of the Region
Although we are drawing up master plans for 10-year periods, we have a development programme covering the period to 2030 and a heat-supply plan covering the period to 2035. However, when we [the investor – ed.] start counting our investments, we look three years ahead, or five maximum
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Green Energy in the Far East. Supplying Energy to Remote and Isolated Areas of the Region
We need to make a list of technologies, collate best regional practices, and develop a more‑or-less unified model for calculating return on investment
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Green Energy in the Far East. Supplying Energy to Remote and Isolated Areas of the Region
In my opinion, we need to look at the potential offered by technology in this area. The state is not willing to guarantee a return on investment without understanding what equipment will be employed
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Green Energy in the Far East. Supplying Energy to Remote and Isolated Areas of the Region
Why is it that, as I see it, the renewable energy support programme is not totally applicable to isolated areas? These are places where there’s more wind, say, than anywhere else, and where there is fairly good potential. The wind turbines themselves have a very high capacity per unit. So, we don’t need 2.5 megawatt units, 4.5 megawatt units, or 5 megawatt units [there – ed.]
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Green Energy in the Far East. Supplying Energy to Remote and Isolated Areas of the Region
Currently, the only available source of energy in isolated areas is diesel generation. Price is again a relative issue, and is mainly affected by the cost of transporting this fuel to the places it is needed. So, the success enjoyed by RusHydro in combining diesel with wind and solar installations – thereby reducing use of this fuel – is most interesting, and something that should be done as we move forward
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
The Russian Electric Power Industry: Identifying Opportunities
I would still like to do some fine-tuning of the banking instruments, and if that requires a change in the regulator, we are ready, we are open to communication. Let’s try to do that. <...> There could be some fine-tuning of the tax system, and there could be preferences
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
The Russian Electric Power Industry: Identifying Opportunities
Why do we estimate all projects through a payback period of five to a maximum of seven years? This is disproportionate. <...> We have a long life cycle
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
The Russian Electric Power Industry: Identifying Opportunities
I think the right concept is a rational balance of generation. <...> When we use the principles of minimizing the cost of electricity for consumers, price is only one factor. We are combining several factors. The second factor is the challenges facing Russia in terms of reducing CO2 emissions. <...> The third factor is ecology, obviously, we are not going anywhere, and we are not going to leave that behind. The fourth is the availability of technology, which is perhaps one of the most difficult issues when it comes to achieving self-sufficiency in terms of technology
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
‘Alternative Boiler House’: Goals, Methods, and Means of Attracting and Managing Investments and Quality in the Field of Heat Supply
It is important for us to make the heat supply scheme accessible, digitizing it to a greater extent. <...> We <...> additionally interact in terms of approaches and strategies for <...> efficiency through digital
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
‘Alternative Boiler House’: Goals, Methods, and Means of Attracting and Managing Investments and Quality in the Field of Heat Supply
The ‘alternative boiler house’ model is now undoubtedly being finalized. And many ideas, many changes are already under consideration in the government in terms of updated parameters
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
‘Alternative Boiler House’: Goals, Methods, and Means of Attracting and Managing Investments and Quality in the Field of Heat Supply
The issue of transparency and availability of information on all fronts is the most important thing right now. The biggest benefit, after all, is trust. Trust is information, openness, and discussion
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
‘Alternative Boiler House’: Goals, Methods, and Means of Attracting and Managing Investments and Quality in the Field of Heat Supply
We believe in the alternative boiler house. We will continue to do it
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
Ash and Slag Wastes at Thermal Power Plants: How Can Energy Become the Solution?
A lot of experience in using [ash and slag waste, – Ed.] in constructionof highways, including those of regional importance. The concept used by colleagues in the framework of international experience is the concept of effective radius, where exactly this material should be used in the nearby areas from the burial site. All the more so, there is an analogue in Russia as part of measures to support renewable energy. When we were previously forming a scheme for the development of electric power in hard-to-reach isolated areas, we compared any technical solution for power supply to that of a renewable energy facility. At the same time, I think here we should also do and try to assess the economics, to make designers at the level of basic calculations compare with the possibility of using materials within the effective radius of ash and slag waste
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
Ash and Slag Wastes at Thermal Power Plants: How Can Energy Become the Solution?
We have low awareness of all these possibilities [of wash and slag waste application, – Ed.]
13.10.2022
Russian Energy Week 2022
Ash and Slag Wastes at Thermal Power Plants: How Can Energy Become the Solution?
Economic motivation is the best here
14.10.2021
Russian Energy Week 2021
Russian Energy System and Climate Agenda: Evolution or Revolution
I believe there should be package solutions not only for renewable energy, solar, and wind facilities. There should be [solutions] for hydroelectric power plants and for thermal power plants that are being modernized. Package solutions should be available for all types of generation. I think Russia has lucked out with its energy balance thanks to our fathers and grandfathers who diversified the energy balance in this manner,
14.10.2021
Russian Energy Week 2021
The Future of Coal in a World Shaped by the Climate Agenda: The End, or a New Beginning?
Over the short term, i.e., from 2024 to 2035, we do not see Russia not having coal in its energy mix. Currently, it is not a particularly large share – around 12.5–13.5%, but will remain nevertheless. <...> looking ahead to 2050, we see coal generation accounting for around 4.5% of the energy mix. That is if there are no major changes in terms of modernization, moving to supercritical CO2 or carbon capture, or power station overhauls
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Climate Change: Is it Still a Question of Money?
I hope that the microgeneration law will start actually working. This would mean that all of us as private individuals will have the right to use a solar panel at home. We have analysed the international experience and chose carbon-free certificates. We saw that they are used in 70 countries and drafted a bill