"It seems to me that the issue of this even more aspiring project can be put on the long-term agenda — supplies of electric energy from Russia's Far East to the most populous and industrially developed island of Hosnhu," Igor Sechin said at the international conference on Russia-Japan energy cooperation in Tokyo.
The idea of constructing a Russian-Japanese energy bridge has being discussed since the beginning of the 2000s. In early 2015, Japan expressed great interest in the proposal to create an energy bridge between the Russian island of Sakhalin and Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido. The project is still under discussion.
According to Sechin, the delivery of electric energy from Sakhalin to Hokkaido could increase the stability of the electricity supply to the most northern Japanese island, as well as reducing electricity costs for end users.
Earlier in the day, the first international conference devoted to energy cooperation between Russia and Japan opened in Tokyo. The main topics of the conference, according to its organizers, are the development of the energy sector in coastal areas of the Arctic Ocean and the use of the Northern Sea Route to transport freight, including liquefied natural gas.
