RusHydro has signed agreements on further cooperation with Japanese companies Mitsui, Kawasaki, Komaihaltec and Sojitz Corporation. The agreements were signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Japan. RusHydro and Mitsui signed a Memorandum of Understanding as a follow-up to Agreement on technological cooperation signed by the parties at the Eastern Economic Forum in September 2016.

The parties agreed to continue to exchange information regarding Japanese technologies and jointly study feasibility of renewable energy projects, including construction of wind and geothermal power plants as well as projects of hydrogen production using renewable energy sources (RES) for use in fuel cells in isolated grid areas, and, as part of collaboration, analyze application of new technologies for modernization of fossil fuel plants in the Far East, as well as pumped storage hydropower projects RusHydro, Mitsui and Komaihaltec signed a Memorandum of Intent in the use of wind power generation, confirming their interest in cooperating in wind power generation aiming to reduce RES projects' costs through localization of wind turbine generators (WTG) or its components in Russia. Also, RusHydro, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sojitz Corporation signed Cooperation agreement aimed to expand the use of gas turbines in new energy projects developed in the Russian Far East.