Samara's future power engineers will compete for a place in the finals of the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship.

On April 7, 2015, Samara State Technical University will host the qualifying stages of the Electric Power Industry League of the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship. The event will begin at 10.00 a.m. at the address Samara, Pervomaiskaya St., 18, auditorium 438.

Each stage of the Championship is held with the assistance of regional authorities. The SamSTU stage will be held with the participation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Samara Region, whose representatives will take part in the grand opening of the event.

One of the goals of the Championship is to promote the worthy representation of Russian energy companies in the international energy community. That is why one of the organizers of the Championship is the Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems (RNC CIGRE). A representative of the RNC CIGRE Youth Section will act as a stage expert at SamSTU and personally assess the level of training of future specialists in the electric power industry in Russia.

The Electric Power Industry League is included in the competition program of the Championship for the first time, but SamSTU students already have experience in solving energy cases: in 2014, a team of university students participated in another major project of one of the organizers of the Championship, the Reliable Change Foundation, the Interregional Educational Forum Energy of Youth. Within the framework of the Forum, students solved the case "Development of the energy system of the Crimean Peninsula".

As part of the current Championship, students of the Department of Energy will present solutions to the case "Development and selection of the optimal scheme for the supply of electric energy to a thermal power plant during its reconstruction".   The ideas of the participants will be evaluated by an expert jury consisting of managers and specialists of key energy companies in the region: a branch of JSC SO UES ODU of the Middle Volga, JSC FGC UES, MES of Volga, LLC PC ELECTRUM, as well as teachers of SamSTU.

The winners of the qualifying stage will meet with finalists from other universities on May 28-29, 2015 in Moscow.

The general partners of the Championship are: JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System", JSC "Siberian Coal Energy Company", Micromine company, JSC "MHC "EuroChem", LLC "Siberian Generating Company", EVRAZ company, RUSDRAGMET Management Company, LLC "Dassault System Djeovia RUS". 

Learn more about the stage

The next stage of the Electric Power Industry League will be held on April 10, 2015 at Kazan State Energy University. 

The official website of the Championship: http://vseros.yminer.ru/