The winners of the CASE-IN championship from St. Petersburg are participants of the Youth Global Forecast

The team of St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering has been selected to participate in the Youth Global Forecast of Energy Development competition. The organizer is the Reliable Shift Foundation.

The purpose of the event is to involve young specialists and students of specialized universities in the formation of the international youth community of the fuel and energy complex, to promote the popularization of engineering and technical education and the development of new technologies.

A total of 42 Russian universities are participating in the project. SPbGASU will compete with, among others, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg Mining University, Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Far Eastern Federal University and the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI.

The team of SPbGASU "ECO-builders" led by the associate professor of the Department of Heat and Gas Supply and Ventilation Victor Yakovlev and the captain, a master's student at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Urban Management By Yegor Ilyin She submitted to the competition a solution to a case related to the future of hydrogen energy. The team includes prize-winners of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" and multiple winners of BIM championships.

The participants analyzed the technologies, the prospects for their development and the boundaries of the field of application.

Students used PESTEL (analysis aimed at identifying political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, environmental and legal factors of influence) and SWOT (analysis that identifies strengths and weaknesses, as well as potential and risk areas) as decision tools. They also compared the main players in the energy market and formed a final scenario with recommendations. According to the authors of the project, the use of hydrogen has an important environmental and, consequently, reputational value, as well as economically beneficial. Despite the impressive initial costs of creating fuel, further variability in use and the ability to continuously use hydrogen as one of the renewable energy sources will lead to lower costs.

"Eco-Builders has already passed the correspondence stage of the anti-plagiarism check, but there is still a lot of interesting and time-consuming work ahead of us. The next stage will be the protection of the project", – said Egor Ilyin. 

The winners will be awarded to the three teams with the highest score based on the results of the online case presentation. The final will be held on October 16 during the international forum "Russian Energy Week".

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