On September 3, 2025, as part of the Asia-Pacific Energy Week (APEW -2025) Distributed Power Generation Association together with the Corporation for the Development of the Far East, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and the MKC Group, with the support of the Russian Ministry of Energy and the All-Russian Public Organization Business Russia, will hold a session on the Role of Distributed Generation in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. The event aims to consolidate at the international level the contribution of distributed generation to the development of remote and isolated territories.

APEW -2025 forum is held from September 1 to 5 in Bangkok (Thailand) under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Ministry of Energy of Thailand. The discussion focused on progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal No. 7 in the region, prospects for financing national and cross—border energy connectivity infrastructure, and the implementation of a regional roadmap in this area.

In conditions of economic instability and climate challenges, distributed energy is considered as a tool for forming a balanced energy mix combining renewable and traditional sources while ensuring environmental friendliness, accessibility and efficiency of generation. This area is of particular importance for territories with decentralized energy supply — from Far East and Arctic to the countries of Asia-Pacific region, where access to electricity is limited or depends on imported fuel.

The development of local systems based on local resources, including renewable energy sources, can be the key to ensuring affordable, reliable and sustainable energy for all. However, differences in socio-economic status and technology levels between countries require increased international cooperation, exchange of experience, and joint efforts by governments, businesses, and the scientific community.

The session of the Distributed Power Generation Association will be devoted to the development of distributed energy as an alternative to centralized electricity supply, increasing energy connectivity and strengthening partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region. Among the participants are representatives of government authorities, energy companies, financial structures, development institutions and science.

Speakers invited to the session: 

• Alexey Kulapin — Director General of the Russian Energy Agency;
• Hongpeng Liu — Director of the ESCAP Energy Department;
• Yang Lei — Vice President, Institute of Energy Research, Peking University (China);
• Samuel Mao — Director of the ASPIRE Sustainable Energy Research Institute, Co-Chairman of the UAE Climate Network of Universities, Professor of Practice at Khalifa University (UAE);
• Sergey Alekseenko — Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director of the Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS;
• Nuki Agya Utama — Executive Director of the ASEAN Energy Center;
• Syed Saggaf Syed Ahmad — President of the Malaysian Oil, Gas and Energy Services Council (MOGSC);
• Dmitry Holkin — CEO of ANO Energynet;
• Igor Shakhray — CEO of Unigreen Energy LLC and others experts.

Maxim Zagornov, Director of the MKC Group, President of Distributed Power Generation Association, Director of the STC of Autonomous Energy at MIPT, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Small generation, Business Ambassador of Business Russia in the UAE will be the moderator of the session.

It should be noted that the Distributed Power Generation Association will hold a session on the APEW fields for the second time -  the first time it presented its program in 2023. The 2025 session is expected to consolidate internationally the contribution of distributed generation to the development of remote and isolated territories of various states and become a step towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal No. 7 — ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy sources.