Open Joint-Stock Company RusHydro announced operating results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. In the fourth quarter of 2012, the total electricity generation increased by 16.7% to 31,255 GWh from 26,792 GWh for the same period a year ago. Total excluding RAO ES of the East was 22,553 GWh against 17,797 GWh a year ago.

For the year, the company's total electricity generation by power plants of RusHydro and its subsidiaries amounted to 112,697 GWh, a 5% increase as compared to 2011. Total excluding RAO ES of the East was 81,156 GWh against 77,007 GWh a year ago. The underlying factors of the production change in 2012 were heaviest rainfall flood in the recorded history of the Volga-Kama cascade which resulted in significant electricity generation increase; water inflow to major reservoirs of Siberia lower than long-run average.