The opening ceremony of the 8th All-Russian energy-saving conference organized by Sverdlovsk Region Government, the Russian Federation Ministry for Industry and Power Engineering, Federal Power Engineering Agency, the Union of Russian Entrepreneurs and Manufacturers, and Ural division of Russian Academy of Sciences took place in Yekaterinburg today. The conference will be attended by presenters from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, and Moscow regions as well as from Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, and Udmurtia.

Deputy Minister for Industry, Power Engineering, and Science Yuri Shevelev said the region’s sustainable industrial development posed a threat of electricity deficit as well as of possible shortage of other energy sources. The region might fall short of up to 3,000 megawatt in 2015. Energy-saving and putting up new power generating facilities would be a solution to the problem.

This information was reported by the spokesperson for the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region.