The participants of the finals of the CASE-IN championship met at the venue of the REN Youth Day

Participants of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" with the support of the presidential platform "Russia is a land of opportunity" we generated breakthrough ideas at the Youth Day The International Forum "Russian Energy Week".

The REN Youth Day was held in Moscow and brought together more than 2,000 young professionals, students and schoolchildren, as well as heads of government agencies, industry companies and universities. Interesting solutions and bright ideas were presented by the participants of the CASE-IN championship.

The strongest teams of the project were awarded well—deserved awards at the final session of the Youth Day "Energy of Youth Initiatives - 2023" by the State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Anastasia Bondarenko, Deputy Director of the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Activities of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Alexander Vedekhin, head of the Career department, Rosmolodezh track.Career   Dmitry Dyakov. The CASE-IN champions were congratulated by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak. The Director of Communications welcomed the young engineers on behalf of the presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities". Sergey Kolyada.

"I am glad to note that the Youth Day hosts events every year under the auspices of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, which is supported by the presidential platform Russia is a Land of Opportunity, – noted Sergey Kolyada. – The REN Cup was held here, and the final of the CIS League of Young Specialists was held for the first time.  Colleagues from CASE-IN are creating a community of young professionals and have invited the project's winning ambassadors from different years to the Youth Day in order to promote the project and engineering education among young people. A great start!".

The Russian Energy Week Cup has been held at the Youth Day venue since 2017. The case-solving competition is traditionally attended by young specialists from leading fuel and energy companies.

This year, 17 teams representing ALROSA, Gazpromneft-MNPZ, Mosoblgaz, NBI, NTC FGC UES, Rusatom Infrastructure Solutions, IDGC of the Urals, LLC presented their innovative solutions to the industry community.Gazpromneft Energy Systems, LLC Gazpromneft-Razvitie, LLC LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka, PJSC Gazprom Neft, PJSC Inter RAO, PJSC NLMK, PJSC ROSSETI Yarenergo, PJSC Rosseti North-West and PJSC T Plus.

Within the framework of the case "Energy Strategy 2035: New Horizons", the contestants identified technical, organizational, legal, economic and other barriers to the implementation of Russia's energy strategy for the period up to 2035, taking into account the current sanctions restrictions and the high level of uncertainty in global energy markets. The work of the youth teams resulted in motivated and well-founded proposals for updating the strategy based on end-to-end technologies that ensure the technological leadership of the fuel and energy complex, MSC and related industries.

State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Anastasia Bondarenko She welcomed the contestants and stressed that the REN Cup has established itself as an effective platform for organizing a professional dialogue between young professionals and employers.

The Champion's Cup was awarded to the team of Gazpromneft Energosystems LLC. The winners were Rosalina Galieva (captain), Anna Malyavina, Maxim Berezny and Timofey Milovanov.

Silver was won by the youth team "Energy of Diamond", which included employees of ALROSA Yaroslav Glatko (captain), Andrey Romanov, Svetlana Glatko, Evgeny Kopytov.

The Rosseti Center youth team took the third place. Participants: employees of the Yar-Energo Branch of PJSC ROSSETI Ilya Skaldutsky (captain), Mikhail Grechina, Ani Proshyan and Vladimir Smirnov

In 2023, it was held for the first time. International League of Young Professionals "CASE-IN». At the national selection stages, the best engineering minds from 8 CIS member countries developed optimal scenarios for the low-carbon development of the CIS electric power industry.

15 youth teams from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan came to Moscow for the League final. The young specialists presented to the experts environmentally neutral technologies that will help the low-carbon development of the CIS electric power industry in the horizon up to 2030/2035.

Chairman of the Expert Commission, Deputy Vice-Rector for Research and International Cooperation - Head of the Scientific and Innovation Department of KuzSTU Roman Belyaevsky He noted that the championship promotes the development of professional competencies and flexible skills of participants: "During the competition, young specialists learned how to analyze information, master the skills of team interaction and public speaking. The participants presented interesting case solutions, each of which was unique in its own way. The combinations of solutions and technologies chosen by the teams took into account the specifics of the electric power industry in the CIS countries."

According to the decision of the jury, the winner was the youth team of Russia - the team of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" called "SO".

Anastasia Chegodaeva (captain), Svetlana Smirnova, Vladimir Kuznetsov and Ivan Zamyslov predicted the low-carbon development of the Russian electric power industry on the horizon of 2030-2035.

"We have taken a comprehensive approach to solving the problem, starting from the already approved plans for the commissioning/decommissioning of generating equipment and proposed to green up existing thermal power plants, as well as develop hydroelectric power plants and nuclear power plants.", - The team captain shared the details of the project. Anastasia Chegodaeva.

The winners admit that participation in the International League of Young Professionals allowed them to improve their professional skills, get acquainted with problems in different industries, and evaluate promising solutions from colleagues from other countries. As a result of the project, the company receives more young people involved in production processes, energy engineers from Russia are convinced.

The 2nd place was taken by representatives of Belarus - employees of RUE Gomelenergo Vladislav Klyuchinsky (captain), Anton Vashchilov, Alexander Kovalenko and Dmitry Pavlyuk, united in the Gomelenergo team.

Vladislav Klyuchinsky He explained that his team needed to develop a plan for the development of the electric power industry of the Republic of Belarus until 2030 based on environmentally neutral technologies.

"Our plan included the development of energy storage systems, hydrogen energy, including innovative ways to transport hydrogen, capture and use greenhouse gases, as well as the development of a mutually beneficial interstate partnership between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.", " He told me Vladislav Klyuchinsky.

The Belarusian Beltei&Co team of RUE BELTEI also rounded out the top three: Alexander Bobich (captain), Roman Veraksa, Vladislav Yuditsky.

According to Alexander Bobich, He and his colleagues were faced with the task of increasing electricity production without using technologies that produce greenhouse gases, in particular carbon dioxide.

"We proposed to generate electricity using technologies based on wind power plants and solar power plants in conjunction with electricity storage systems necessary to balance the electricity generation schedule with the electricity consumption schedule., - commented the captain of the team. - Our solution will reduce the carbon dioxide output by 2% relative to the existing CO2 generation."

For the Minsk team, participation in the championship became a way to declare their company through the decisions of their specialists and establish contacts with potential partners.

In addition, the participants of the winners' club "CASE-IN" held their own meeting. The participants, winners and ambassadors of the engineering competition discussed energy development trends and outlined key work vectors for the coming year.

The organizers of the Russian Energy Week and the REN Youth Day were The Roscongress Foundation, Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation with the support of Moscow Government. Youth Day Operator – Reliable Change Foundation.