OREANDA-NEWS. September 13, 2011. Duisen Mergaliyev, former General Director of Almaty subsidiary of Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Engineering, an international gas and oil company, has been appointed chief executive of Vostokenergo, DTEK. Mr Mergaliyev has spent 14 years working for AES – an international electricity generation and distribution company – where he rose from a design engineer to director of a subsidiary. He headed AES-UK subsidiary in Ekibastuz city (Kazakhstan) and was the General Director of Ust-Kamenogorskaya CHPP (Kazakhstan).
 
‘Duisen Mergaliyev has a profound knowledge of the operational aspects of power generation: production processes, equipment upgrade and construction of new power units. He also has a strong record in introduction of international HSE standards. This kind of expertise is exactly what the company needs today, given DTEK’s strategic plans on further modernization and development of power generating business’, said Yuriy Ryzhenkov, DTEK’s COO.
 
‘My objectives are to complete the retrofit of Vostokenergo’s power units and to increase the operating efficiency of the company’, says Duisen Mergaliyev. ‘I am impressed with the rapid changes the company is undergoing: simultaneous and continuous retrofit of power units on all three TPPs. I see a strong potential for development of Vostokenergo’.