OREANDA-NEWS. May 03, 2011. Integrated Energy Systems and its subsidiaries operating in 16 Russian regions announce the launch of the Third Interregional Energy Cooperation Contest among heat and power consumers (legal entities) to be held from April 4 until May 31. The best consumers in each nomination will receive an Energy Efficiency Award of the Year and Energy Efficiency Diplomas. The worst consumers will be named Energy Vampires. IES.Garant will act as the Contest 2011 partner.

On April 4, 2011 IES-Holding announced the launch of the Third Interregional Energy Cooperation Contest among power and heat consumers. This year the Contest will be held for the third time and will involve enterprises and organizations that operate in 16 Russian regions. It has already become one of the prominent events in energy efficiency and saving. The Contest is supported each year by the Russian Energy Ministry, regional administrations and sectoral ministries, public organizations and business communities. In 2010 over 6,500 legal entities participated in the Contest. Details of participation and application forms are available at the Contest’s official website at www.ies-garant.ru/contest/.

The Contest’s main purposes include creating public and business community awareness of energy efficiency problems and rewarding advocates of energy-efficient technologies among consumers. IES-Holding annually engages its partner organizations – acknowledged energy efficiency experts – in holding the Contest. In 2011 this partner will be IES.Garant, a developer of integrated energy efficiency solutions for businesses and social organizations and a company with a successful record of supporting and improving “business energy health”.

In 2011 the Contest will be held in two stages. Based on the results of the first stage the Contest Commission will select the nominees and also the least efficient power and heat consumers in each region. During the second stage the Contest Commission will evaluate the nominees based on their information on power and heat consumption and projects of energy-saving technologies implementation carried out in 2010.

The Contest is open for all legal entities in 16 subjects of the Russian Federation where CJSC IES currently operates. In the Perm Territory, Sverdlovsk Region, Republic of Komi, Udmurt Republic, Republic of Mari El and Kirov Region the Energy Cooperation Contest will be held in partnership with CJSC IES’s Generation Urals division, affiliates of OJSC TGC-5 and OJSC TGC-9 that make part of said division, heat-selling operators, as well as energy-selling companies of CJSC IES’s Retail division. 

Heat consumers will compete in the following nominations: Major Industrial Enterprises; Small/Medium Businesses; State and Municipal Enterprises and Social Facilities; Homeowners Associations, Management Companies, Housing and Utility Enterprises.  Power consumers will have similar nominations plus an additional nomination of Agricultural Businesses.

At the end of May award-giving ceremonies for the Contest winners and runners-up will be held in all 16 regions. The best consumers in each nomination will receive Energy Efficiency 2011 awards and honorary diplomas. Experts will also identify the region’s most wasteful energy consumer and award it with an anti-prize of the Energy Vampire of the Year.

 The Contest 2011 partner, IES.Garant has instituted special nominations and prizes for participants. In the nomination of Will to Energy Saving one winner will be selected and awarded a free energy expert examination by IES.Garant. A special prize of IES.Garant Emergency Aid will be offered to 2011 Energy Vampires to help them not only have an express audit of their energy facilities, but also sign an energy service contract with IES.Garant enabling the Energy Vampires to put their energy facilities in order and reduce their energy bills.

 Participants in the Energy Cooperation Contest 2011 were greeted by CJSC IES General Director Evgeny Olkhovik, who said: “IES-Holding, our generating, heat-selling and power-selling companies are directly interested in the development of transparent relations with consumers. I am confident that only acting jointly in an open discussion involving authorities and the public we shall be able to find ways of solving the most challenging issues of concern for all of us: growing energy resources costs, introduction of energy-saving technologies, reducing the receivables, and energy supply system development. The Energy Cooperation Contest has already become a good ground for such dialog.”