The Russian National Committee of CIGRE held a final meeting with scientific and technical partners in 2022

On 15 December 2022, the Izolyator Group took part in the final annual meeting of scientific and technical partners of the Russian National Committee of CIGRE.

Russian National Committee of International Council on Large Electric Systems (RNC CIGRE) as a legal entity was established in 2003. At present the Committee counts over 60 collective and over 460 individual members. RNC CIGRE aims to represent the national interests at CIGRE and to assist in exchanging technical knowledge, experience and feedback in various fields of CIGRE activity for all its members. The most important objective of the committee is attraction of the best Russian power industry companies to scientific and technical cooperation as research base organizations for CIGRE National Study Committees.

Summing up the results of the activities of partners in 2022 and discussion of plans for further work took place at the headquarters of the Rosseti Group in Moscow.

The final meeting of scientific and technical partners of the Russian National Committee of CIGRE for 2022 at the headquarters of the Rosseti Group in Moscow

The 2022 session in Paris showed once again that CIGRE is out of politics, and foreign colleagues are open to interaction. Taking into account the state of affairs, the value of scientific and technical cooperation on the platform of the association has only increased.

It is necessary to use this resource, on the one hand, to develop the potential of the domestic electric power industry, and on the other hand, to promote our own vision, as well as specific products at the international level’, — emphasized the Chairman of RNC CIGRE, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Federal Grid Company — Rosseti Dr. Andrey Murov.

The meeting of scientific and technical partners of the Russian National Committee of CIGRE is chaired by the committee chairman Andrey Murov 

The Russian National Committee of CIGRE remains one of the largest in the world in terms of the number of participants. At the CIGRE Session — 2022, domestic experts presented 44 scientific reports, which exceeds the figures of previous years. At the same time, six reports were prepared by the participants of the Youth Section of RNC CIGRE.

At the final meeting, the Izolyator Group, the leading scientific and technical partner of RNC CIGRE, as well as at the Paris session of CIGRE, was represented by the head of the group, the Head of CIGRE National Study Committee D1,

CIGRE Study Committee D1 Regular Member, Head of the Izolyator Group Dr. Alexander Slavinsky.

Alexander Slavinsky at the final meeting of scientific and technical partners of the Russian National Committee of CIGRE in 2022

Russia will continue to work in all fields of research done by CIGRE, the largest scientific and technical association in the electric power industry.

The nearest plans of the Russian committee include holding a reporting event following the results of the Paris CIGRE Session — 2022, as well as the international conference ‘Relay Protection and Automation of Power Systems’.

The meeting participants also discussed key trends in CIGRE research: the use of information technology, maintaining the quality of electricity in networks with large numbers of power equipment, developing markets with a growing level of distributed generation, and reducing the negative impact on the environment.

Based on materials of the Rosseti Group.