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| 1 January |
State registration is granted
to 26 new energy companies spun off, according to the basic restructuring plan, from
the following regional energos: OAO "Volgogradenergo", OAO
"Karelenergo", OAO "Kostromaenergo", OAO "Marienergo", OAO
"Udmurtenergo", OAO "Chuvashenergo", OAO "Vladimirenergo",
OAO "Ivenergo", and OAO "Penzaenergo". |
| 11 January |
State registration is granted
to 22 new energy companies spun off according to the basic restructuring plan, from
the following regional energos: OAO "Astrakhanenergo", OAO
"Lipetskenergo", OAO "Rostovenergo", OAO "Ryazanenergo", OAO
"Tambovenergo", OAO "Tverenergo", and OAO "Yarenergo". |
| 13 January |
In Dushanbe, Management Board
Chairman of RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais, Energy Minster of the Republic
of Tajikistan Jurabek Nurmakhmatov, and Energy Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Habibollah Bitaraf sign a Tripartite Protocol for the completion of construction and
operation of the Sangtuda HPP-1 and Sangtuda HPP-2 in the Republic of
Tajikistan. Under the Protocol, the construction of Sangtuda HPP-1 is to be fully
completed by Russia and Tajikistan. |
| 14 January |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Ivanovo Management Energy Company" spun off from OAO
"Ivenergo" as a result of restructuring in accordance with the basic plan. |
| 15 January |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Vladimir Energy Company" spun off from OAO "Vladimirenergo" as
a result of restructuring in accordance with the basic plan. |
| 28 January |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" approves the Revised Methodology for Calculating the Company's
Dividends incorporating amendments on the procedure to be used to calculate dividends on
ordinary shares. |
| 31 January |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Chelyabinsk Generation Company", OAO "Chelyabinsk Management Energy
Company", OAO "Chelyabenergosbyt", and OAO "Yuzhnouralskaya TPP",
the companies spun off from OAO "Chelyabenergo" reorganized according to the
basic plan. |
| 31 January |
OAO RAO "UES of
Russia" and the US-based General Electric International Inc. sign a Memorandum of
Understanding. The document is intended to enhance cooperation in the field of heat and
hydro generation, power engineering, investments and renewable electricity generation. |
| 1 February |
State registration is granted
to 13 new energy companies spun off, according to the basic restructuring plan, from
the following regional energos: OAO "Kurskenergo", OAO "Mordovenergo",
OAO "Nizhnovenergo", and OAO "Smolenskenergo". |
| 1 February |
OAO "Territorial
Generation Company 14" (OAO "TGC-14") starts operations. |
| 24 February |
A project is launched in the
Ivanovo Region to modernize the Ivanovskaya TPP. Under the project, two PGU-325 MW
combined-cycle turbines are planned to be installed at the power plant. |
| 25 February |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" unanimously approves the establishment of OAO "TGC-2",
OAO "TGC-4", and OAO "TGC-6" as the Company's wholly owned
subsidiaries. The TGCs are expected to operate under lease arrangements. |
| 25 February |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" approves the basic restructuring plan for OAO
"Kurganenergo" and the restructuring plan for OAO "Kalmenergo". |
| 28 February |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Urals and Volga Interregional Distribution Company" (OAO "Urals and
Volga IDC"). |
| 4 March |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Fourth Generation Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market" (OAO
"WGC-4"). |
| 9 March |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Second Generation Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market" (OAO
"WGC-2"). |
| 16 March |
RAO "UES of Russia"
is named winner of All-Russia Awards "Best State Customer 2004" in the category
"Best Customer among Natural Monopolies". |
| 17 March |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Sixth Generation Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market" (OAO
"WGC-6"). |
| 22 March |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 5" (OAO "TGC-5"). |
| 22 March |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 8" (OAO "TGC-8"). |
| 23 March |
State registration is granted
to OAO "First Generation Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market" (OAO
"WGC-1"). |
| 25 March |
The Board of Directors of OAO
RAO "UES of Russia" resolves to create the Personnel and Remunerations
Committee. |
| 25 March |
The Board of Directors of OAO
RAO "UES of Russia" approves the restructuring plan for OAO
"Kamchatskenergo" using a scenario different from the basic one. |
| 25 March |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" approves the turnaround and restructuring plan for OAO
"Ingushenergo", OAO "Kabbalkenergo", OAO
"Karachaevo-Cherkesskenergo", OAO "Sevkavkazenergo", which are run by
OAO "Caucasus Energy Management Company" (OAO "CEMC"). |
| 25 March |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 1" (OAO "TGC-1"). |
| 30 March |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 10" (OAO "TGC-10"). |
| 31 March |
State registration is granted
to six new energy companies spun off, according to the basic restructuring plan, from OAO
"Tomskenergo". |
| 1 April |
State registration is granted
to 44 new energy companies spun off from OAO "Belgorodenergo", OAO
"Mosenergo", OAO "Novgorodenergo", OAO "Stavropolenergo",
OAO "Arkhenergo", OAO "Nizhnovenergo", OAO "Oryolenergo",
OAO "Permenergo", OAO "Sverdlovenergo", and OAO "Tulenergo". |
| 1 April |
OAO "Territorial
Generation Company 9" (OAO "TGC-9") starts operations. |
| 11 April |
The Management Board of RAO
"UES of Russia" approves the Concept Paper for the Company's Technical Policy
for implementation of investment projects to build new or modernize and upgrade the
existing energy facilities of the Holding Company. |
| 15 April |
OAO RAO "UES of
Russia" starts construction of Sangtuda HPP-1 in the Republic of Tajikistan. |
| 19 April |
Boris Ayuyev, member of the
Management Board of RAO "UES of Russia" and Chairman of the Management Board of
OAO "UES SO-CDA", and Martin Fuchs, President of UCTE and President of E.ON
Netz, sign in Brussels, Belgium, an Agreement on Cooperation in the Preparation of a
Feasibility Study on Synchronous Interconnection of the Energy Systems in the Western,
Central, and Southern Europe with the UES of Russia and the energy systems of the CIS and
Baltic states, which operate in parallel with the CIS/Baltics' energy systems. |
| 19 April |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 2" (OAO "TGC-2"). |
| 20 April |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 4" (OAO "TGC-4"). |
| 26 April |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" makes changes to the restructuring plan for OAO
"Krasnoyarskenergo" as approved 3 September 2004. |
| 27 April |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 6" (OAO "TGC-6"). |
| 1 May |
A transitional wholesale
electricity (capacity) market is launched in Siberia. |
| 1 May |
State registration is granted
to three new energy companies spun off from OAO "Kirovenergo": OAO
"Vyatskaya Electricity and Heat Company", OAO "Kirovenergosbyt", and
OAO "Kirovenergo Management Company". |
| 3 May |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Dagestan Heat Generation Company" and OAO "Dagenergo Management
Company" spun off from OAO "Dagenergo". |
| 25 May |
A major blackout occurs in
the Moscow's power grid which leads to power outage in part of the city and some
neighbouring regions. Power to socially important facilities is restored by
18:00 hours on the same day. By 16-00 hours on 26 May, power is fully
restored to all customers. |
| 26 May |
The CIS Electrical Energy
Council, presided by Anatoly Chubais, holds its 27th Session in Moscow, Russia. |
| 27 May |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" approves the basic restructuring plan for OAO
"Komienergo". |
| 1 June |
RAO "UES of Russia"
becomes a full member of e7, the international non-profit organization (Forum) comprised
of the nine leading electricity companies from the G8 countries. |
| 8 June |
A project is launched to
build Power Unit No. 2 with an installed capacity of 450 MW at the
Severo-Zapadnaya CHPP. |
| 14 June |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Norilsk-Taymyr Energy Company" (OAO "NTEC"). OAO
"NTEC" is set up as an operating company which leases energy assets from OAO
"MMC Norilsk Nickel" and OAO "Taymyrenergo". |
| 24 June |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" hears and notes the report on the investigation by the Company's
Task Force into the causes of the major blackout in the Moscow energy system's grid on
25-26 May 2005, and unanimously approves the guidelines for action plan to increase
reliability of the UES of Russia. |
| 24 June |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" approves the basic restructuring plan for OAO
"Kuzbassenergo". |
| 28 June |
OAO
"Orenburgenergo" and OAO "Khabarovskenergo" sign an agreement with the
Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA) to sell, via the Kyoto Protocol mechanism,
the "emissions reductions units" generated by the modernization projects at the
power plants in the Khabarovsk Kray and Orenburg Region. |
| 29 June |
The AGM of OAO RAO "UES
of Russia" is held in Zelenograd. Shareholders approve the Company's Annual Report,
decide on dividend payment, and elect the Board of Directors, the Auditing Commission, and
the Company Auditors. |
| 30 June |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 13" (OAO "TGC-13"). |
| 1 July |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" approves the winding up of 34 management companies
previously spun off from the regional energos. |
| 1 July |
State registration is granted
to 15 new energy companies spun off, according to the basic restructuring plan, from
the following regional energos: OAO "Dagenergo", OAO "Orenburgenergo",
OAO "Tyumenenergo", and OAO "Khakasenergo". |
| 1 July |
RAO UES Management Board
Chairman Anatoly Chubais and China's State Power Grid Corp. General Manager Liu Zhenya
sign an Agreement on Long-Term Cooperation between RAO "UES of Russia" and
China's State Power Grid Corp. The ceremony to sign the Agreement is held in Kremlin in
the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Chairman Hu Jintao. |
| 1 July |
OAO "Territorial
Generation Company 5" (OAO "TGC-5") and OAO "Territorial Generation
Company 8" (OAO "TGC-8") start operations. |
| 4 July |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Siberia Interregional Distribution Company" (OAO "Siberia
IDC"). The process to register all the IDCs is completed: |
| 6 July |
Kazakhstan's Minister of
Energy and Mineral Resources Vladimir Shkolnik and Andrey Rappoport, member of the
Management Board of OAO RAO "UES of Russia" sign in Astana a Protocol on the
creation of a Russia-Kazakhstan Joint Venture on the basis of OAO "Station
Ekibastuzskaya TPP-2". |
| 9 July |
RAO "UES of Russia"
and RUSAL sign a Memorandum of Intent on implementing a joint business project to complete
the construction of the Boguchanskaya HPP and build a new aluminium smelter. |
| 27 July |
State registration is granted
to six new energy companies spun off, according to the basic restructuring plan, from OAO
"Kamchatskenergo". |
| 29 July |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" makes amendments to the restructuring plan for OAO
"Kubanenergo" approved 31 October 2003. |
| 1 August |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Volzhskaya Territorial Generation Company" ("OAO
"TGC-7"). |
| 3 August |
State registration is granted
to the companies spun off, according to the basic restructuring plan, from OAO
"Omskenergo": OAO "Omsk Electricity Generation Company", OAO
"Omsk Management Energy Company", and OAO "Omsk Energy Retail
Company". |
| 8 August |
First shares of the energy
companies established in the course of regional energos' restructuring are floated on the
stock market. ZAO "MICEX Stock Exchange" includes the shares of OAO
"Lipetsk Generation Company", OAO "Tambov Energy Retail Company", and
OAO "Tambov Generation Company" in its List of non-listed securities. |
| 26 August |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Territorial Generation Company 11" (OAO "TGC-11"). |
| 29 August |
The Management Board of OAO
RAO "UES of Russia" approves the Programme of Actions to Improve Reliability of
the UES of Russia prepared pursuant to the Board resolution of 24 June 2005. |
| 1 September |
State registration is granted
to 29 transmission (trunk grid) companies spun off, according to the basic
restructuring plan, from the following regional energos: OAO "Arkhenergo", OAO
"Astrakhanenergo", OAO "Bryanskenergo", OAO "Chelyabenergo",
OAO "Chuvashenergo", OAO "Dagenergo", OAO "Ivenergo", OAO
"Karelenergo", OAO "Kirovenergo", OAO "Kostromaenergo", OAO
"Kurskenergo", OAO "Lipetskenergo", OAO "Marienergo", OAO
"Mordovenergo", OAO "Nizhnovenergo", OAO "Omskenergo", OAO
"Penzaenergo", OAO "Rostovenergo", OAO "Ryazanenergo", OAO
"Smolenskenergo", OAO "Tambovenergo", OAO "Tverenergo", OAO
"Tulenergo", OAO "Tyumenenergo", OAO "Udmurtenergo", OAO
"Vladimirenergo", OAO "Volgogradenergo", OAO
"Voronezhenergo", OAO "Yarenergo". |
| 2 September |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" adopts the plan to restructure the energy systems in the Russian
Far East according to a scenario different from the basic one, and approves the package of
measures to implement the plan. |
| 14 September |
Shares of the first company
on the wholesale electricity market are floated on the stock market: ZAO "MICEX
SE" includes the ordinary shares of OAO "Fifth Generation Company of the
Wholesale Electricity Market" (OAO "WGC-5") in its List of non-listed
securities. |
| 19 September |
As a measure to increase
capitalization of OAO "WGC-5" and expand the pool of the company's potential
investors, WGC-5 and Deutsche Bank launched an unsponsored GDR program for OAO
"WGC-5" on the major European securities markets, The London Stock Exchange
(LSE) and Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt. |
| 1 October |
OAO "Territorial
Generation Company 1" (OAO "TGC-1") starts operations. |
| 1 October |
State registration is granted
to 16 new energy companies spun off, according to the basic restructuring plan, from
the following regional energos: OAO "Vologdaenergo", OAO "Kolenergo",
OAO "Krasnoyarskenergo", and "Smolenskenergo". |
| 1 October |
State registration is granted
to the transmission (trunk grid) companies spun off from OAO "Oryolenergo" and
OAO "Orenburgenergo". |
| 1 October |
OAO "Norilsk-Taymyr
Energy Company" (OAO "NTEC") starts operations. |
| 3 October |
State registration is granted
to the transmission (trunk grid) companies spun off from the previously unbundled regional
energos: OAO "Permenergo" and OAO "Sverdlovenergo". |
| 3 October |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Moscow Management Energy Company" (OAO "MMEC"). |
| 4 October |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" unanimously approves the purchase of a 22.43% stake in OAO
"Power Machines". |
| 6 October |
The Russian Government
broadly approves the Investment Programme 2006 of OAO RAO "UES of Russia". |
| 7 October |
Deputy Chairman of the
Management Board of RAO "UES of Russia" Yakov Urinson becomes Chairman of the
Board of Directors of OAO "Russian Communal Systems". |
| 18 October |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Severo-Ossetinskaya Hydrogeneration Company" |
| 20 October |
The balancing market of the
wholesale electricity market is launched in Russia pursuant to Resolution of the Russian
Government No. 620 of 17 October 2005. |
| 20 October |
In the annual "Russia's
Leading Managers" rating conducted by the Institutional Investor Magazine, a leading
international business publication, Chairman of the Management Board of RAO "UES of
Russia" Anatoly Chubais is named, for the second consecutive year, Russia's Top
Business Leader in electricity industry. |
| 21 October |
OAO RAO "UES of
Russia" fully and timely pays the interest and redeems RUB3 billion of its
Series 2 interest-bearing bonds. |
| 28 October |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Kalmenergosbyt". |
| 28 October |
The first power unit with an
installed capacity of 450 MW is brought on line at the Kaliningradskaya CHPP-2. |
| 3 November |
State registration is granted
to OAO "Karachaevo-Cherkessk Hydrogeneration Company". |
| 6 November |
Hydrogeneration unit No.
4 of 335 MW is put into commercial operation at the Bureyskaya HPP. The
Ststion’s installed capacity reaches 1,005 MW. |
| 11 November |
OAO RAO "UES of
Russia" tops the Expert-400 ranking compiled by Expert RA Rating Agency in the
category "Leader of National Economy". |
| 14 November |
State registration is grated
to OAO "Kabardino-Balkaria Hydrogeneration Company". |
| 25 November |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" notes the progress report on the implementation of the
electricity reform in the Russian Federation. The Board members review the results of the
reform efforts over the period since the Board considered the issue on 29 October
2004. |
| 7 December |
OAO RAO "UES of
Russia" purchases, pursuant to the Board resolution of 4 October 2005, a 22.43%
stake in OAO "Power Machines". |
| 23 December |
The Board of Directors of RAO
"UES of Russia" approves the sale of its 100% stake in OAO
"Taymyrenergo" in an auction. |
| 30 December |
State registration is granted
to seven new energy companies spun off, according to the basic restructuring plan, from
the following regional energos: OAO "Chitaenergo" and OAO
"Buryatenergo". |
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