OREANDA-NEWS. July 7, 2011. JSC RusHydro (ticker symbol: RTS, MICEX, LSE: HYDR; OTCQX: RSHYY) has been informed that Mr. Evgeny Dod, Chairman of the Management Board and member of the Board of Directors of RusHydro, has increased his shareholding in the Company from 0.01% to  0.054% as of July 6, 2011.

The Company has been notified of the change July 6, 2011.

Mr. Dod purchased the shares for the proceeds from sale of Inter RAO shares, where he was Chairman of the Management Board before joining RusHydro.

SC RusHydro is Russia's largest power generating company in terms of installed capacity. It is also the leader in power production using renewable energy sources (RES), developing power generation using water flows, tidal, wind and geo-thermal energy.

RusHydro's installed capacity is 26.1 GW, including the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP (named after P. S. Neporozhniy) (6,400 MW), which is currently under reclamation work.

Including the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, which is the largest HPP in Russia, the Company has 68 renewable energy source (RES) plants, including: 9 power stations in the Volga-Kama Cascade with a total installed capacity of more than 10,166.7 MW, the first station of the large-scale hydro-power industry in the Far East - the Zeiskaya HPP (1,330 MW), the Bureiskaya HPP (2,010 MW), the Novosibirsk HPP (455 MW) and tens of HPPs in the North Caucasus, including the Kaskhatau HPP (65.1 MW), which was commissioned in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic at the end of 2010. RusHydro also holds geo-thermal power plants in Kamchatka and the highly-maneuverable Zagorskaya Pumped Storage Hydro-power Plant (PSPP) in the Moscow Region, which levels daily variations in energy demand in the central IPS division. In 2011, CJSC International Power Corporation (IPC) became a member of the RusHydro Group. IPC's capital asset is the Sevan-Razdan HPP in Armenia, which has 7 power plants with a total installed capacity of 561 MW. In addition to the Holding Company, RusHydro incorporates scientific and research, planning and surveying and engineering enterprises, as well as retail power supply companies.