The session participants explained that digitalization in the field of renewable energy sources may include introduction of the system of energy origin certification which are usually circulated in the electronic format.

Oleg Barkin, a member of the Management Board of NP Market Union Association, told that the energy origin certificates is a globally recognized instrument for recording, transferring and using by interested consumers of the rights related to positive environmental impacts of the renewable generation. The energy origin certificate actually confirms that it was generated on the generation facility based on the renewable energy. Such certificates are fully digital goods easy to handle. Certificates may be bought and sold.

According to Oleg Barkin, the world markets of certificates have been growing for about 20 years already. For 2022, over 1,050 billion kWh of net energy was certified only within four major certification systems.

The development of the system for certification of net energy in Russia, including taking into account orientation towards cooperation with Asian and Oriental countries is taking on ever greater importance in this context. The Russian system for certification of electrical energy origin is one of the tools for achieving the task of carbon neutrality of the Russian economy, Oleg Barkin said.

The Russian certification system started functioning since February of this year, the expert added. The operator of the said system is already holding negotiations on possible sale of the energy origin certificates on exchanges.

Moreover, digital solutions are actively applied in forecasting of weather that affects functioning of the facilities based on the renewable energy sources.

Evgenii Ganshin, Business Development Director of «Yandex Weather» service, told that the global weather models for the whole world, including Canadian, Japanese and European ones, are often taken as an initial point for weather forecasting.

Since 2015, the «Yandex Weather» team has been going beyond the global models’ data and is developing its own forecast of weather and climatic data with a higher resolution, by using computer-aided instruction and enriching the forecast with the data obtained from radars, satellites, weather stations and user reports. Specific parameters with higher resolution are also studied in detail for business.

«We start cooperating with participants of the Russian renewable energy market in the field of making energy generation models and creating a more accurate forecast of the upper wind. We already have a number of foreign partners, and now we are ready for cooperation in Russia», said Evgenii Ganshin.

Digital solutions are also applied in such area as energy storage. The experience of that kind was described by Natalya Mayer, General Director of Atomenergosbyt JSC. According to her, the company has already implemented digital control over the battery energy storage systems.

Atomenergosbyt uses the battery energy storage systems of container type as a tool of commercial dispatching. When a number of such installations were placed in operation, it became clear that the digital system is necessary for monitoring and control of them. As a result, Atomenergosbyt has created its own platform to carry out all these functions, which enabled to reduce labor efforts and get an instrument for on-line control and prompt response.

The session was attended by representatives of Digital Energy Association, Atomenergosbyt JSC, Renewable Energy Development Association, NP Market Union Association, SOLTECH LLC, National Bureau of Informatization JSC and Yandex Weather.