9th Nov 2012 13:53
Results of the Board of Directors on November 9, 2012
November 9, 2012. Moscow, Russia. JSC RusHydro (ticker symbol: MICEX-RTS, LSE: HYDR; OTCQX: RSHYY) announces that the Company's Board of Directors held a meeting in absentia today, November 9, 2012.
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The Board of Directors approved the establishment of a unified O&M (operations and maintenance) company through reorganization of RusHydro's subsidiaries - JSC «Turboremont-VKK», JSC «Elektroremont-VKK», JSC «REMIK», JSC «SSHPR» - and their merger with another 100% subsidiary JSC «Hydroremont-VKK».
The establishment of RusHydro's single O&M company is aimed at strengthening of engineering competency within RusHydro group, O&M cost optimization and improvement of personnel technical skills as RusHydro pursues its ambitious comprehensive modernization program. The implementation of this program requires the improvement of resource base, management system, RusHydro's and contracting organizations' expertise that provides for necessity of setting up a joint center of engineering assets control.
The management estimates that the establishment of a unified engineering company will allow saving ca. RUR 700 mn in O&M costs per year.
The comprehensive modernization program was developed in accordance with RusHydro's strategic plan after detailed inspection and reliability assessment of hydrotechnical facilities, equipment and buildings. The program provides for replacement of ca. 50% of turbines, 40% of generators, 60% of transformers, plants auxiliaries and power circuit-breakers for the company's hydropower fleet. This modernization will result in significant reliability, efficiency and security improvement of RusHydro generating facilities, increase in installed capacity of ca. 1 GW and sustainable growth of electricity generation by 2025.
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The Board of Directors made the amendments and additions to the list of non-core assets of RusHydro approved by the Board on February 29, 2012.
These amendments aim to update the data after adjustment of the list of assets.
About RusHydro:
RusHydro Group is one of Russia's largest generating companies. RusHydro is the leading producer of renewable energy in Russia with over 70 generating facilities in Russia and abroad. The company also manages a number of R&D, engineering and electricity retail companies. Group's thermal assets are operated by subsidiary - RAO Energy System of East in the Far East of Russia. Total electricity generation capacity of the Group is 35.2 GW, heat capacity - 16.2 thousand GCal/h.
Russian Federation owns 60.5% in RusHydro, the rest is held by other institutional and individual shareholders (over 360,000). The company's stock is traded on the MICEX and RTS stock exchanges, and included in MSCI EM и MSCI Russia indexes. Company's GDRs in the IOB section of LSE, ADRs - in OTCQX.
For more information:
JSC RusHydro, Investor Relations Department
Tel. +7 (495) 225-3232 ext. 1319, 1394, 1607
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