Fitch Ratings international rating agency has upgraded TGC-1's long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings (IDR) to BBB; Outlook Stable. Fitch has affirmed the company's short-term foreign and local currency IDR at 'F3' and upgraded the priority unsecured rating in local currency to BBB

The TGC-1 project dedicated to the 150th anniversary of power engineer Genrikh Graftio started in St. Petersburg on 6 September. It includes an exhibit about the most important periods in the life of the founder of the Russian hydropower engineering school, and walking tours to the places where Genrikh Graftio lived and worked

Apatitskaya CHPP of TGC-1, the only heat supply source of the towns of Apatity and Kirovsk in Murmansk Oblast, switched to the winter operating mode

2019 marks the 60th anniversary of cooperation between Russia, Norway and Finland on the regulation of Lake Inari. On 20 August, the Finnish municipality of Inari hosted a meeting of Representatives of the three countries, timed to that date

During the tour, organised by Barents Press Russia and Barents Press Sweden, the participants visited TGC-1's Verkhne-Tulomskaya and Nizhne-Tulomskaya HPPs, as well as Murmanskaya CHPP

TGC-1 releases unaudited interim consolidated Financial Statements for the 6 months period, ended 30 June 2019 prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

TGC-1 published its 6 months 2019 financial statements under the Russian Accounting Standards (RAS).

Electricity output of TGC-1, including PJSC Murmanskaya CHPP, for H1 2019 comprised 15,077.8 million kWh, which is 5.2% lower than for the same period of 2018.

On 24 July 2019, the acting Governor of Murmansk Oblast Andrey Chibis and the General Director of TGC-1 Alexey Barvinok got acquainted with the operation of new water treatment facilities and the system of closed fuel oil discharge at Centralnaya CHPP and PJSC Murmanskaya CHPP.

On 3 July, Petrozavodskaya CHPP resumed hot water supply after the end of the summer Repair and Maintenance Programme according to the schedule approved by the city administration. Within two weeks, the energy workers performed a large amount of work, providing safe operation of the plant and the main heating grids for preparation to the autumn and winter heating period 2019/2020