JSC RusHydro announced operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended 2013. For the quarter total electricity generation by power plants of RusHydro amounted to 30,707 GWh against 31,012 GWh produced a year ago, 1% decrease as compared to the same period of 2012. In the fourth quarter of 2013, hydropower plants of RusHydro Group slightly increased electricity generation by 0.3% to 22,260 GWh, generation in 2013 increased by 16.3% to 93,690 GWh. Decrease in electricity generation by hydropower plants of the Volga-Kama cascade in the fourth quarter of 2013 was offset by increase in generation in Siberia as well as generation by the first stage of Ust'-Srednekanskaya hydropower plant put into operation in late summer of 2013.

For the year 2013 the total power generation amounted to 124,144 GWh against 112,490 GWh produced a year ago. The underlying factors of the production change in 2013 were: higher than average water resources in reservoirs of the hydropower plants as of the beginning of the year; water to reservoirs of the Volga-Kama cascade higher than long-run average in the first, second and fourth quarters; water inflow to major reservoirs of Siberia higher than normal during the whole year; priority of HPPs load in the Far East of Russia over thermal generation in the third and fourth quarters of 2013 due to abnormal flooding.