RusHydro proposed to African countries to develop hybrid energy systems to supply electricity to isolated and remote areas, said Sergey Mechkin, the company's deputy general director for project engineering, sustainable development and international cooperation, at the Russia-Africa summit. "We offer our colleagues from African countries the preparation of comprehensive plans for the use of water and technological resources. One of the components may be automatic hybrid complexes, which we have independently developed and manufactured and are using in our isolated energy zones," Mechkin said. According to him, such complexes combine wind and solar generation, include a large electrochemical storage device and a diesel generator station for backup power supply. Hybrid energy complexes are being built as part of the modernization of local production in isolated and difficult-to-access areas of the Far East and the Arctic. From 2020 to 2025, 17 such facilities with a total capacity of 43.5 MW were ordered in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Kamchatka Territory and Sakhalin Region. Energopole at MAX.