OREANDA-NEWS. February 14, 2008. According to the reports of the first month of 2008 hydropower stations of the Dagestan Branch of JSC “HydroOGK” increased the electricity generation by 20%, reported the press-centre of JSC “HydroOGK”.
 
During the first month of 2008 hydropower stations of the Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro” generated 320 million kW/h of electricity, which is 20% higher than it was planned. It has been a very cold this winter and in this connection electric power consumption during the month of January totaled 572 million kW/h this year, which is 14 % higher than in January 2007.
 
To meet the needs of the growing electricity demand in the Republic of Dagestan hydropower stations of the Dagestan Branch of JSC “RusHydro” increased their output according to the requests of JSC “System Operator – CDO of UES” (Central Dispatch Office of Unified Energy System).
 
 In 2007 the annual output of electric power totaled 3milliard 614 million and 487 thousand kW/h. All hydropower stations in the Dagestan Republic work in the regular regime according to the dispatch time-table.
 
Reference: Branch of JSC “RusHydro” - “The Dagestan Branch” operates 10 hydropower stations (4 of them are mini-hydro power plants). The installed capacity of the stations totals 1366.9MW. On January 9 января, 2008 the first phase of consolidation of JSC “RusHydro” was completed.

As a result of this process of consolidation JSC “Regional Power Generation Company of Dagestan” was transformed into “Dagestan Branch” of JSC “RusHydro”. JSC “RusHydro” is the largest generation company of the Russian Federation and the second world hydrogenation company according to its installed capacity.

The installed capacity of the Company totals 24,14 GW. Share of JSC “RusHydro” at the electricity market of Russia totals 15%. The Charter capital of the Company totals 140.954 milliard rubles; it is divided into 140954759856 ordinary shares with 1 ruble face-value. RAO “UES of Russia” is the biggest shareholder of JSC “RusHydro”.