Snikkars Pavel Nikolaevich

Snikkars Pavel Nikolaevich

Biography

Born December 24, 1978 in the Novosibirsk region.

2000

SibAGS

In 2000 he graduated from the Siberian Academy of Public Administration (since 2012 - Siberian Institute of Management - branch of RANEPA) with a degree in state and municipal administration.

Novosibirsk Mill No. 1

In 2000, he began his professional career as a legal adviser at OJSC Novosibirsk Melkombinat No. 1.

2001: Barrayar Region

In 2001-2002 - Executive Director at Barrayar Region OJSC, Novosibirsk.

2003: Okshin

In 2003-2005 - Deputy Director for Legal Affairs, Legal Adviser at Okshin LLC, Novosibirsk.

2005

SibCPC

In 2005 he graduated from the Siberian University of Consumer Cooperation with a degree in jurisprudence.

Novosibirskenergo

In 2005-2006 - Deputy Head of Department, Head of Department in an open joint-stock company power engineering specialists and electrification, "" Novosibirskenergo Novosibirsk.

2007: SibirEnergo

In 2007-2008 - Director for the wholesale market at OJSC, SibirEnergo"." Novosibirsk

In 2008-2010 - Director for work in the wholesale market electric power and capacity, commercial director at Sibirenergo Management Company OJSC, Novosibirsk.

2010: United Energy Sales Company

In 2010-2012 - Deputy General Director for Development, Deputy General Director for Markets at United Energy Sales Company OJSC, Moscow.

2012: NP Market Council

In 2012-2013 - Member of the Board - Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Non-Profit Partnership "Market Council for the Organization of an Effective System of Wholesale and Retail Trade in Electric Energy and Capacity," Moscow.

2013: Ministry of Energy of Russia

In 2013, he was appointed Director of the Electric Power Industry Development Department, Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

2024: Dismissal from the post of deputy head of the Ministry of Energy

In early September 2024, the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order by which he dismissed Pavel Snikkars from the post of deputy minister. power engineering specialists RUSSIAN FEDERATION He has held this post since November 2020.

As reported on the website of the Ministry of Energy, Pavel Snikkars in the department was responsible for the development and implementation of state policy, as well as regulatory and legal regulation in the field of electricity. In addition, he oversaw the consideration and approval of investment programs for the subjects of the electric power industry, issues of import substitution, pricing policy, the use of renewable energy sources, reducing costs in the energy sector and the development of digital technologies.

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Фото: Ministry of Energy

A Vedomosti source close to the Ministry of Energy says Snikkars' departure is "his own desire." Another interlocutor of the publication connects the personnel rotation with the conflict within the department. Disagreements in the approaches of regulation - both in terms of methods and the ability to find an acceptable compromise - arose between Snikkars and another deputy Yevgeny Grabchak, whose area of ​ ​ responsibility also includes the electric power industry, the newspaper's informant claims. Disputes, he said, sometimes resulted in an open confrontation between the two deputies at workshops. In particular, disagreements arose over approaches to the reform of territorial network organizations (TSO).

He calls Snikkars a "comfortable manager" for both generators and electricity customers. Grabchak, the interlocutor believes, lacks flexibility and the ability to negotiate. The interlocutors of the industry publication Peretok say that the functionality of Snikkars will at least temporarily leave Grabchak. In addition to Grabchak, the Ministry of Energy by the beginning of September 2024 had four more deputy ministers - Pavel Sorokin (first deputy), Sergei Mochalnikov, Eduard Sheremettsev and Anastasia Bondarenko.^[1]

2025: Appointment to the position of CEO of T Plus

On January 22, 2025, the energy company T Plus announced the appointment of Pavel Snikkars as the new CEO. He is elected to this position until January 22, 2028.

According to TASS, citing a statement by T Plus, Pavel Snikkars headed the company instead of Alexander Vilesov, who will continue to work in the company's shareholder structures.

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Фото: Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant

Strengthening the T Plus management team will positively affect the company's ability to fulfill all its long-term obligations and maintain stable and efficient work in the face of many unfavorable external factors and a changing macroeconomic situation, the company said in a statement quoted by the agency.

Arthur Shamilov, managing partner of TopContact Executive Search, said in a conversation with Kommersant that Pavel Snikkars is recommended on the market as a deep expert in the industry, in addition, "people who know him emphasize human and managerial qualities."

He has good experience in the Ministry of Energy, and in T Plus he will be in great demand, since the electricity market is now quite regulated, the source added.

According to the newspaper, the tasks of Pavel Snikkars as head of T Plus will include the development of the T Plus strategy, issues of ensuring sustainable work in conditions of external challenges and a difficult macroeconomic situation. The company should also take a more active position in the development of regulatory decisions in the electricity and capacity market, in heat supply, the sources of the publication noted.

According to one of them, as an official Pavel Snikkars coped with many tasks in the Ministry of Energy, of course, as a top manager, he is of interest to many market players. A number of Kommersant's interlocutors said that the ex-deputy minister, after his resignation, was also invited to head the Siberian Generating Company^[2]

Awards

Awards:

• Commemorative medal XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi (2014),
• Certificate of Honor of the Ministry power engineering specialists RUSSIAN FEDERATION (2015),
• Awards of other departments.

Additional information

As of December 2019, the current state adviser of the Russian Federation of the 2nd class.

Candidate economic sciences (2005).

Family

He is married and has three daughters.

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