The Russian government published Resolution #132 of February 8, 2021, which extends the duration of the pilot project concerning demand response aggregators until December 31, 2021, and it increases the maximum amount of the services provided as part of the project.

'In 2021, we are planning to increase the amount of demand response services by 1.5 times, despite the fact that during this year January-February the demand response mechanism was put on hold due to the elaboration of a Government resolution,' said Lyubov Andreeva, director of the Digital energy and commercial dispatching Department at Rosenergoatom.

In 2020, demand response providers of ROSATOM (Rosenergoatom JSC, AtomEnergoSbyt JSC and Atomenergopromsbyt JSC) signed agreements with 22 electricity retailers and provided demand response services with a total capacity of over 30 MW.

Demand response is a modern way to get a reward for the reasonable electric power consumption, reallocation or relocation of the power consumption. Project participants are notified by the so-called aggregator (demand response provider) about the need to reduce their energy consumption at certain hours of the day-ahead, the following day they subsequently change the load and receive a reward for this at the end of the month. Currently, this service is available for large power consumers, however, so-called "micro-users" can potentially receive this service, as it appears from the international practice.

Participation information and calculation of financial benefits for participants are presented on a specialized Rosenergoatom website www.demand-response.ru