Damage to CEZ Group´s facilities connected with floods reached nearly 3m CZK.

The floods in March and April caused 2.89m CZK damage to CEZ Group. The largest damage recorded was mainly to technological and building parts of our distribution transformers VN/NN. Water caused also damage to some high voltage cable lines?, says Martin Nemecek, director of Poskytovani siti CEZ Distribuce, a.s (Provision of networks CEZ Distribution).?

The situation was worst in the North of Bohemia, where the damage amounted to 1.5m CZK. During the floods, ca 2,500 consumer connections had to be cut off and over 100 employees of CEZ Group, who worked continuously under reinforced emergency and were operatively engaged in the field according to the need and actual development of the water level of the Labe, had to stay in the field.

Amount of damage to CEZ Group´s facilities by individual regions:

North	1.500 thousand CZK
Moravia	850 thousand CZK
East	340 thousand CZK
Centre	200 thousand CZK
West	0 CZK
Total	2.890 thousand CZK

OndĹ™ej Horak, Press Officer, CEZ Group for North Bohemia

2006. 4. 20.

Damage to CEZ Group´s facilities connected with floods reached nearly 3m CZK.