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Energy policies move the world: Russia estimates that it could reduce its energy consumption by 40 to 50 per cent, and China is also a top address for energy efficiency and renewables. Around 50 per cent of the world’s construction activity is expected to take place here by the year 2015.
dena is a major international player in developing future energy policy.
dena has worked across national boundaries from the very beginning, making a name for itself with a wide range of activities, whether at the energy summit in Berlin’s Bundeskanzleramt, as a member of the European Energy Labelling Committee or at government talks in its core regions of Russia, Kazakhstan and China. dena also cooperates with these areas in capacity building and the development of long-term pilot projects.
dena’s aim is the same everywhere: the development of bilateral alliances in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energies and climate change solutions. It also targets a more in-depth exchange of knowledge and expertise, allowing the various governments to find ways and means of giving their countries’ growth a sustainable direction and offering German businesses new export markets for energy efficiency products and services.
Russia and Germany are strengthening their practical cooperation and knowledge transfer on energy efficiency. In 2010, 23 senior staff from the supra-regional distribution grid operator MRSK Ural completed a two week theoretical and practical training course in Berlin and Cologne. dena organised a high-quality training programme on "energy efficiency" for 23 senior managers working in management, generation, distribution, engineering and marketing at the supra-regional distribution grid company (MRSK) Ural. more 
On 19 October 2010 dena, together with German and Chinese partners, formally opened the new building for Mianyang Experimental Primary School (Mianyang, Sichuan Province). This newly built school is part of the German Federal Foreign Office's "Eight Schools for Sichuan" initiative to assist this region, which was hard hit by the earthquake in 2008, and at the same to act as a role model for energy-efficient, earthquake-resistant building in China: "This school shows that a comfortable learning environment does not necessarily require a large energy input," emphasised dena Chief Executive Stephan Kohler at the opening. The opening ceremony was also attended by Han Aixing, Deputy Director of the Technology Department of the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) and Hans Mordorf, the German Consul General in Chengdu. The school will in future provide a learning space for around 800 pupils in 18 classes. more (in German)
During a study trip to Germany by the China Association of Mayors on "Sustainable building and management of modern cities", dena organised an inspection of Europe's biggest low energy house in Berlin and provided comprehensive information regarding both the German government's energy efficiency targets and the agency's activities. Dr Markus Ederer, Head of Policy Planning in the German Foreign Office, and dena's Executive Director Stephan Kohler welcomed the delegation of Chinese mayors and deputy mayors headed by the Vice Construction Minister to Berlin. The example of the Transatlantic Climate Bridge was used to present possible ways of cooperating in the international mitigation of climate change, and these were then illustrated and discussed in relation to dena's projects both past and present in Germany and China.
The work of the Russian-German Energy Agency (rudea) began quickly once the founding documents had been signed at Schleißheim Palace near Munich during the Russo-German government talks in July 2009. rudea’s office is located in the Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft in the centre of Moscow, and in december 2010 25 members of staff were already employed here to work on the various projects - projects which have been commissioned by German and above all by Russian partners.
rudea has encountered great interest in Russia, as the various regions need to develop concrete energy efficiency plans if they are to achieve the efficiency goals set for the year 2020. A lot of these regions have therefore commissioned rudea to draw up corresponding plans. From Germany, projects for the use of biomass, to refurbish buildings for energy, and to introduce contracting to the Russian energy industry have been commissioned. Concrete projects are being developed and implemented in cooperation with German companies, one example being a scheme in Yekaterinburg. Go to rudea website 
