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This resolution has been drafted by the Ministry of Energy.
The main state policy guidelines to increase energy efficiency in the power industry based on renewable energy sources by 2020, as approved by the resolution of the Federal Government dated January 8, 2009, No 1-p, define the goals, guidelines and activities of the public authorities in developing the power industry by using renewable energy sources. The document includes a range of measures to stimulate the development of renewable resources to generate electricity.
The resolution creates conditions for the use of a specialised power capacity trade vehicle in order to stimulate the development of generating facilities that operate on renewable energy in the wholesale power market, which will ensure a return on investment and the required profitability of such projects.
The implementation of the resolution will help promote competitiveness in the wholesale market and ensure that the list of renewable energy generating facilities that will be the subject of the energy supply contracts concluded following tenders on investment projects held separately for each renewable energy technology is determined on a competitive basis.
The document is drafted to support the projects to build renewable energy generating facilities that use main and auxiliary equipment manufactured in Russia.
The implementation of the resolution is to set the necessary conditions for the development of a new high-tech sector of production in the Russian Federation.