Moscow Times 22 Mar 2012
Two government agencies are linking arms with the Skolkovo Innovation Center to offer small companies and academic teams the chance to sell their energy-efficiency technology throughout Russia in the government’s ongoing modernization effort.
Over the next five weeks, Skolkovo will hold a competition to find the best in new energy-efficient technologies for housing and utilities, including for lighting buildings, supplying electricity and conserving water and heat.
Speaking at the five-star Lotte Hotel in downtown Moscow on Wednesday, aides and officials from the Regional Development Ministry and the Energy Ministry joined a top director from Skolkovo, the government innovation project that is expected to make its home outside Moscow, to announce the contest.