The energetic of antimonopoly science

An agreement is signed to train personnel under the frame of state programmes on antimonopoly control and tariff regulation in natural monopolies

On 25 October 2016, a branch of FAS Centre for Education and Methodics and “Corporate Education and Research Centre of the Unified Energy System” at Corporate Energy University signed an agreement on a network form of training personnel and cooperation in methodology and information support of the ongoing reforms.

Deputy Head of FAS Anatoly Golomolzin; Director of the branch of FAS Centre for Education and Methodics, Stanislav Druzhinin; and General Director of Corporate Energy University, Sergey Mescheryakov took part in the event.

Sergey Mescheryakov outlined significant experience accumulated by Corporate Energy University on devising methodological documentation and research in the energy field and organizing education and professional training, both in Russia and with the CIS states. To this purpose, lecturers and staff of Corporate Energy University, holders of Degrees of Candidates of Sciences and Advance Doctorates of Sciences, will be engaged; the modern methods of education will be employed including distance learning.

Stanislav Druzhinin reported that under the frame of cooperation between FAS and Corporate Energy University, a synergy of practical knowledge in antimonopoly control and state regulation of natural monopolies and state-of-the-art research and development is emerging.

Anatoly Golomolzin, who is Head of FAS Methodological Council on tariff regulation in natural monopolies and a number of Expert Councils, also chairs the Department on Regulating Natural Monopolies at Corporate Energy University. For more than a dozen of years, the Department has been working on professional retraining in the field of antimonopoly control and tariff regulation in natural monopolies. During this period several thousand listeners – staff of the antimonopoly bodies and tariff regulators, local self-government bodies, economic entities – obtained modern knowledge and were awarded registered certificates. Such efforts are also undertaken by Centre for Education and Methodics, which is also a CIS Educational Centre.

“The main areas of cooperation and training will be antimonopoly and tariff regulation on the markets of electric and heating energy, gas, oil and oil products, communications and transport. We have all preconditions and necessary experience to efficiently perform all tasks set under the Agreement”, concluded Deputy Head of FAS Anatoly Golomolzin, summing up the results of the event. He pointed out that efforts should be made in the following areas:

-         Cooperation in the field of developing the basic methodological and scientific principles of antimonopoly control and tariff regulation in natural monopolies

-         Devising techniques, study courses and textbooks in antimonopoly control and tariff regulation in natural monopolies

-         Providing education and professional retraining to experts of FAS Central and regional Offices, municipal authorities, economic entities on public antimonopoly control and tariff regulation in natural monopolies

-         Cooperation with antimonopoly and tariff regulation bodies of the CIS states on methodological, educational and professional restraining aspects of antimonopoly control and tariff regulation in natural monopolies.