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Founded by RAO UES on May 1997.1
Inter RAO was established in 1997 as a subsidiary of the Russian unified power company RAO UES. Its initial focus was international energy trading.
In 2002, Inter RAO started exporting electricity from Russia and generating its own electricity.
In 2005, Inter RAO made several acquisitions:
50% stake in Ekibastuz GRES-2 Power Station
25% plus 1 shares North-West Thermal Power Plant
70% stake in TGR Energy
51% stake in the Cuciurgan power station
In early 2008, Inter RAO obtained listings on the Russian stock exchanges MICEX and RTS. As part of its reorganization, Inter RAO acquired several Russian power generation facilities, including the Sochi Thermal Power Plant, North-West Thermal Power Plant, Ivanovo CCPP, and Kaliningrad CHPP-2. In the same year, Inter RAO purchased the remaining 49% stake in the Cuciurgan power station.
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In the following years, the Government of Russia transferred the power companies' shares remaining after the reform of RAO UES to the property of state-owned companies RusHydro, FGC UES, Rosimushchestvo, and Rosneftegaz to Inter RAO. That included transfer of 41% stake in Irkutskenergo, 65.8% of OGK-1, 3.24% of OGK-4, 26.43% of OGK-5, 24.9% of TGC-6, 34.21% of TGC-7, 30.54% of TGC-11, 20.24% of Kuzbassenergo, 21.27% of Bashkirenergo, 14.48% of Sangtuda 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant (in Tajikistan), and 100% of Razdan Thermal Power Plant (in Armenia).
In 2009, Inter RAO shares were included in the MSCI EM Index. At the end of 2009, INTER RAO was ranked fifth in Standard & Poor's informational transparency rating of the Russian energy companies.
In June 2018, board member Karina Tsurkan was arrested by the Federal Security Service, on allegations of spying on behalf of Romania.
On 13 May 2022, Inter RAO subsidiary RAO Nordic announced that it would suspend deliveries of electricity to Finland and stopped them at midnight. The announcement came one day after Finland's president Sauli Niinistö and prime minister Sanna Marin had expressed their support for Finnish membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The move fits an ongoing pattern of economic sanctions and counter-sanctions in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
From Wikipedia’s article on Inter RAO, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
