Dear Colleagues! At the present stage of the Russian economy development we face such actual current problems as the search of new extra-budgetary sources of financing, increase of capitalization, profitability and efficiency of investments cost reduction at all stages of production and business process. These goals can be achieved by activating economical cooperation through creation of regional diversified financial and industrial alliances. Such alliances should provide simultaneous consolidation of financial and resources, investment capital, professional personnel and intellectual assets with the innovative technologies of production and business management for the effective development, financing and implementation of the investment programs at regional, international and sectoral levels. Particular importance should be attached to the production modernization and technological equipment of Russian enterprises as well as to the labor productivity increase. New “break-through“, fast-payback, energy-saving technologies and equipment should be adopted. Effective energy-saving, being powerful ‘hidden’ investment resource, allows to speed up the process of solving the problems set up by the government such as increase of GDP growth rate and improvement of national economy competitiveness and energy security. Financial Industrial Group “Energy Saving Technologies”(ENSAT) is a holding of private companies implementing joint investment, commercial and engineering projects in the sphere of power engineering, industry, construction and the oil and gas sectors. The group’s companies hold the leading positions on the market of technologies and equipment development and implementation in the energy- and recourse saving sphere. In 2002 FIG “Energy Saving Technologies”, as the managing company, created the Energy Project Group Consortium uniting more the 50 leading Russian and foreign engineering, construction, industrial, investment and energy – service companies. The members of Consortium are actively in the working-out and realization of comprehensive high-performance projects on equipment modernization and technology optimization process for fuel and energy sector, industry and housing and public utilities. From the beginning of the nineties the Energy Project Group Consortium has realized more than 1100 projects. FIG “Energy Saving Technologies” and the “Energy Project Group” Consortium are looking to cooperate with regional and municipal administration and industrial enterprises, banks and investment companies, commercial structures, energy-saving centers, dealers and agents. On the ground of our experience are confident that the managerial, investment-financial, production, scientific and technological human resources of Energy Project Group Consortium will increase the rate of DGP growth, the economy effectiveness and international safety level of the Russian Federation economy. | Chairman of the Board of Directors | | | “Energy Project Group” Consortium | Sergey Tishkin | |