10
Dec
2019
Études de l'Ifri Russie.Eurasie.Reports
Tatiana MITROVA, Vitaly YERMAKOV

Russia’s Energy Strategy-2035: Struggling to Remain Relevant Russie.Nei.Reports, No. 28, Ifri, December 2019

Russia’s Energy Strategy to 2035 (ES-2035) enters, finally, the home stretch. The Ministry of Energy submitted its version of the document to the Russian Government in early October 2019.

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Russia’s Energy Strategy-2035: Struggling to Remain Relevant Download
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Once approved (this is expected before year’s end), ES-2035 will become the best available indication of Russian energy policymakers’ plans. It therefore merits careful consideration. This paper reviews the key goals, scenarios and indicative ranges for output and consumption contained in ES-2035. It thus contributes to understanding the strategic compromises that Russia might be ready to take, as well as those that are unlikely to be acceptable. Our review of the draft ES-2035 suggests that it provides general guidelines to the future evolution of Russia’s energy sectors, but struggles to remain relevant amid fast-paced changes in the global markets. Several crucial but politically sensitive energy issues still need further clarification of policies: the future fiscal regime for oil and gas that could incentivize output and prevent production declines; industrial and technological policy; the choice of the future model for Russia’s gas industry and whether it is going to develop under continued state regulation or in the market environment; climate policy and the strategy to promote (or not) renewables and other technologies of energy transition; and the future of competition in wholesale and retail power markets.

Tatiana Mitrova is Director of the Energy Centre, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Head of the Research Division at the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Vitaly Yermakov is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

 

Keywords
gas Gazprom Nord Stream 2 Oil Russia
ISBN / ISSN: 
979-10-373-0102-4