It makes sense for companies to generate their own electricity. In addition to offering substantial cost savings, it ensures uninterrupted supply and avoids power outtages. It enables companies to plan for expanded capacity with ease – and in a number of companies, it offers a way ofmaking profitable use of waste byproducts. It's a very effective way of keeping control of costs, while keeping the electrical supply tailored to exactly what your specific company requires. With increases in electricity costs on the horizon, generating your own electricity looks more and more like the way to go.

The objectives of the III Business-platform «Onsite power generation for enterprises» are to help Russian companies to use small- and medium-scale generation equipment to get the most for their business – by cutting energy bills, ensuring uninterrupted supply, and tailoring their electricity needs to their specific business profile, and its requirement for new supply.

The crunch questions of the Business-platform:

• Distributing energy – what's new?
• Connecting sites with their own energy generation to the central electricity network – the main obstacles, and how they can be overcome
• Frequent mistakes companies make when choosing generating equipment – how to avoid foul-ups
• Service and maintenance – how to get longest service from generating equipment, and minimise the regularity of power outtages?
• Generating electricity from industrial waste – what's the most profitable way to take advantage of industrial waste byproducts?
• Innovation and unusual ways of putting self-generation projects into operation – when can “some other way” be the best way?
• Automation in generating equipment – what are the benefits for companies?