OREANDA-NEWS. September 07, 2011. JSC RusHydro (ticker symbol: RTS, MICEX, LSE: HYDR; OTCQX: RSHYY) announces the results of the Board of Directors, reported the press-centre of RusHydro.
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The Board of Directors approved a new technical policy of RusHydro. The document was developed to optimize the implementation of new technical solutions at Company's facilities and constitutes an important instrument of the company's strategy implementation in the field of technical system control.
 
Member of the Board of Directors, Viktor Kudryaviy commented: "The technical policy of RusHydro is a compehensive document, that doesn't confine itself to general recommendations and requirements to new equipment. It aims to create of a complex system that ensures reliability, safety and effective use of equipment and facility as a whole during its life cycle. The technical policy of RusHydro is a top level document that provides the development of necessary corporate regulations and clear setting of priorities for technical policy-making in RusHydro. Both Russian and foreign knowledge base influenced heavily this document".
 
Implementation of the new policy will result in higher technological and environmental safety, reliability of hydroelectric facilities and equipment, as well as higher efficiency of operation due to improved characteristics, better management of technological processes and water use.
 
Director for technical policy Rasim Khaziakhmetov also noted: "The expertise of RusHydro let us formulate more detailed requirements to technical policy regulations. Meeting these requirements will result in a totally new modernization process, which ensures sustainable improvement of production and technological assets of the Company".
 
The technical policy will lay out a foundation for forecasting the dynamics of technical development of generating assets.
 
The new technical policy was developed to replace the old regulations on the technical policy, that was approved by the Board of Directors of RusHydro in 2006.