Russia sends the world’s 6th largest delegation to 47th CIGRE Session

august 23, 2018

Upon completion of registration of participants for the research and engineering agenda of the 47th CIGRE Session, Russia is ranked 6th in the world, after France, Germany, Japan, USA, and UK.

Over 150 delegates from Russia will visit the Session in 2018, which exceeds the figures of the last five CIGRE Sessions. The biggest expert-oriented international event will be attended by chief executives and specialists of the industry's leading enterprises such as: Rosseti, FGC UES, SO UPS, Inter RAO, RusHydro, NP Market Council, RaEl, MOESK, OEK, Lenenergo, Samara Grid Company, R&D Center at FGC UES, NIIPT, VNIIR, Energosetstroyproekt, NRU MPEI, OmSTU, UrFU, NSTU, Skoltech, and others.

The list of participants of the Session's research agenda is expanded: Transneft, Solar Security (Rostelecom), Kaspersky Lab, and other companies from allied sectors have joined us.

Traditionally, an active part in the technical agenda is played by the industry's leading Russian manufacturers: Power Machines, RTSoft, Massa (Izolyator Plant), Togliatti Transformer, Kamkabel, Prosoft-Systems, Elmash, Energoservice, Streamer Electric, IT Energy Service, NPO VEI Elektroizolyatsiya, Elara, Global Insulator Group, etc.

Beside the research program, Russian companies and specialists take an active part in the CIGRE Technical Exhibition, which can be visited without prepaying any registration fee, with attendance not accounted for in the comparative data on delegates listed in the diagram below.

The exhibition will involve recognized companies, both from Russia and abroad, represented in their own showrooms along with the RNC CIGRE's collective stand, as well as startup companies represented in the Skolkovo Foundation's collective stand.

RNC CIGRE's united display (stand 217) will be the host for:

• The Research and Development Center for Power Engineering Joint Stock Company www.ntc-power.ru
  
• PROSOFT-SYSTEMS www.prosoftsystems.com
  
• Positive Technologies www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/
  
• CJSC SuperOX www.superox.ru/en/
  
• RTSoft www.rtsoft.ru/en/
  
• Togliatti Transformer Co. Ltd. www.transformator.com.ru/
  
• Trinity Engineering LLC www.trinity-sk.ru
  
• PMK Sibiri www.pmk-s.ru/en/
  

Unique Russian developments in the field of energy efficiency and high-temperature superconductivity will be presented.

The display will be dedicated to the country's newest solutions in emergency automation, cybersecurity and digitalization of energy facilities, which are gaining more and more focus in the modern world.

It will be the first time that the Digital Display (Explore the Best Practices of the Russian Power Sector) will be organized so that companies can take part in the exhibition remotely.

Other domestic companies will also join the exhibition:

Skolkovo Foundation's collective display (www.sk.ru) in stand 301 will be the host for:

• I-tor LLC www.i-tor.ru
  
• Mars-Energo SK LLC www.mars-energo.com
  
• Metsbytservis LLC www.metsbytservis.ru
  
• Profotech R&D LLC www.profotech.ru
  
• Severny Kabel LLC http://severkabel.ru/
  
• Research and Engineering Center of Radio Devices and Systems LLC http://rfsaw.ru/index.php
  
• Engineering Center Continuum CJSC http://ec-continuum.ru/
  

Separate displays will be presented by Engineering Centre "Energoservice" www.enip2.ru/en/contacts/ – stand 299A11 and UMEK GROUP LLC www.umek.pro – stand 122.

Russia will for the first time present its own invention: a combined optical current and voltage transformer applied at HV digital substations and nonferrous smelters. These technologies are only available from two or three manufacturers in the world.

As part of the RNC CIGRE business agenda, 5 agreements will be signed:

1. Quadripartite Agreement between CIGRE NCs of Russia and the Netherlands on regular International Conferences "Digital Substation: IEC standard 61850" on the basis of R&D Center at FGC UES with support of DNV GL (successor of KEMA)
   
2. RPA equipment localization agreement between GE's Grid Solutions and Elektroapparat JSC
   
3. Memorandum of Cooperation between Profotech JSC and EFASEC (Portugal)
   
4. Liaison agreement between R&D Center at FGC UES and Shenyang Transformer Research Institute Co., Ltd. (China) (STRI).
   
5. JV Memorandum of Mehru Co. and Massa LLC (Plant Izolyator) in India