AES (USA) increased energy output in Kazakhstan by 1.3% in Q1 of 2006

/REUTERS, Almaty, Tatyana Seroshtanova, April 21, 06/ - Enterprises of AES, the American corporation in Kazakhstan, increased the output of electrical and heat energy by 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2006 in comparison with the same period of the last year - to 4.906 bn. kwh from 4.842 m. the year earlier, the company informed. Below is the growth dynamics of electrical and heat energy output (in billion kwh): ------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTRICAL ENERGY PRODUCTION Jan-Mar of Jan-Mar of 2005 2006 -------------------------------------- ----------- ---------------- AES Ekibastuz 2.176 2.097 AES enterprises in the East Kazakhstan 1.127 1.124 -------------------------------------- ----------- ---------------- HEAT ENERGY PRODUCTION -------------------------------------- ----------- ---------------- AES enterprises in the East Kazakhstan 1.603 1.621 ------------------------------------------------------------------- AES owns the Maykuben-Invest open-pit mine and Ekibastuz SRES-1 in Pavlodar oblast, Shulbinsk and Ust-Kamenogorsk HES, Ust-Kamenogorsk and Sorginsk HEC and two distributive companies in the East Kazakhstan oblast. About a quarter of producible electrical energy AES exports to enterprises of RAO UES of Russia. [2006-04-21]