Rostechnadzor (the state environmental and technologic safety watchdog) provided Sverdlovsk EnergoGas Company with a license entitling the latter to selling electricity to end users through order 248 signed by head of Rostechnadzor Konstantin Pulikovskiy on April 12, 2007. The licensing procedure was made obligatory after the corresponding provision 291 was issued by the Russian Federation Government on May 6, 2005.

Sverdlovsk EnergoGas Company, the guaranteeing supplier of 20 municipalities in the region, is operating at the retail market, selling electricity at fares determined by the Regional Power Engineering Committee of Sverdlovsk Region for all groups of consumers.