Russia UES net profits to end-Sept 2007 triple

MOSCOW, April 10 (Reuters) - Russia's former electricity monopoly Unified Energy System (UES) EESR.MM said on Thursday that net profits for the first nine months of 2007 rose threefold year-on-year to 36 billion roubles ($1.53 billion).

Revenues climbed by 82 billion roubles to reach 624.7 billion roubles, UES said in financial results calculated to international standards. (Reporting by Olga Popova, Writing by Simon Shuster, Editing by Christian Lowe)