Opening Remarks at Expanded State Council Presidium Meeting on Improving Energy Efficiency of the Russian Economy
July 2, 2009
Arkhangelsk
Вступительное слово на расширенном заседании президиума Государственного совета по вопросу повышения энергоэффективности российской экономики.
2 июля 2009 года
Архангельск
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Colleagues,
I would like to say a few words regarding the topic of this State Council Presidium meeting.
As you know, a Presidential Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russias Economy was established recently. This Commission has identified five priorities that I will be monitoring directly. Energy efficiency is one of these priorities, number one, to be exact, and it is also the main topic of our meeting today.
Energy efficiency needs to serve as a foundation, with other development priorities based on it. To put it differently, energy efficiency must support all the other priorities for technological modernisation.
A year ago, I issued an executive order requiring a 40 percent reduction in energy-output ratio within Russian GDP by 2020. This decision was followed by other steps, including our international obligations in regard to environmental issues.
Today, we must focus on most specific problems that need to be resolved within a clearly defined timeframe. Still, to initiate respective activities, certain legislation is required.
The State Duma has already had a first reading of the Federal Law On Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency Improvement. Further to this law, special norms and rules, new technical regulations and a system of environmental standards should be approved, and current construction requirements must be revised.
I feel that we need to address this issue as prescribed by the documents regulating legislative process, i.e. the State Duma should endeavour to pass this law as quickly as possible, while the Government should submit relevant bylaws. The law goes into effect since next year with some provisions taking effect at an even later stage, but same as many other laws we already have, it cannot function on its own without detailed bylaws. Bylaws on these issues are especially important therefore the federal law and the bylaws approval processes should be synchronised.
I hereby instruct the Government to give this matter special attention. Naturally, the amended law and new regulations and standards must ensure achieving targeted energy efficiency rates. Furthermore, these results must be achieved by the deadlines set for particular industries and meet the specific criteria.
Energy efficiency is a topical and a cumbersome issue, so addressing every aspect of it is very urgent, as we seem to be falling behind in every respect.
I think that to a certain extent, we are falling behind not only because of the difficulties we faced in the 1990s and even earlier, but also because of our mindset, because we have never tried to save energy. We always believed that we were entirely self-sustaining when it came to energy.
It is true that we are the worlds leading nation in terms of energy resources. This does not mean, however, that we may irresponsibly consume such resources. For many years now, it is well known how particular energy products should be used, and why petroleum should not be used for heating. But unfortunately, we continue to heat with petroleum, thus literally and figuratively heating up our planet.
So, we must improve energy saving in every area, but I would like to particularly single out the situation in the public utilities sector. All of the governors here today are well-aware that energy is used in an atrociously inefficient way when it comes to the heating and public utilities. Our buildings and our overall housing infrastructure are a kind of black hole that sucks in enormous amounts of energy resources.
Losses within the heating supply system can go as high as 60 percent, and in reality, they may be even higher. Electric power lines are absolutely outdated and coupled with the outdated illumination devices they cause immense energy waste.
Ultimately, inefficient energy consumption is damaging for municipal and regional budgets and brings about extra costs for the people. Furthermore, the social compensations that we pay to the households have to be borne by budgets at all levels. Thus, we should openly recognise that housing and utilities are our most expensive and ineffective sector in terms of energy.
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kalogeroxx 2 years ago
Мне кажется,что необходимо развивать искусственные источники энергии и не ориентировать экономику на природные ресурсы. Видеть президента России ,который говорит не по шпаргалке-уже достижение.
27173929 2 years ago 2