OREANDA-NEWS. November 06, 2008. Dniproenergo Board meeting set the priorities for partial review of the company’s current operations to preserve key priorities of its strategy. It became a preventive measure amid global negative trends in financial and commodity markets, drop in paying capacity of the traditional electricity consumers, and rise in price for energy carriers, reported the press-centre of SCM.

According to Sergey Bedin, acting Chairman of the Board, the management of the company promptly reacted to the changes in economic environment and developed a range of anti-crisis measures intended to reduce ineffective costs, optimize business processes, and find internal reserves to reduce cost of electric and thermal power production.

Those measures have been approved at the Board meeting. They will help the power generating company improve its positions in the market and minimize the consequences of the global economic crisis.

Also, the Board meeting made some personnel appointments. In line with the Board’s decision the chief engineer of Zaporozhskaya Thermal Power Plant  Yury I. Peresypkin is appointed the Director of Pridneprovskaya Thermal Power Plant.

The Board meeting also approved granting aid to Dniproenergo employees and their families to undergo courses of medical treatment as well as preparing and hosting cultural events to celebrate Power Engineers` Day.