Belarus increased electricity exports to Lithuania by 11.8% YoY in January-June to 75.5 million kWh, according to official statistical reports.
Belarus’ proceeds from electricity export to Lithuania grew by 13.2% to $4.257 million. Lithuania was the key and basically the only destination of Belarus’ electricity exports in 2015. Belarus plans to export to Lithuania around 200m kWh of electric energy in 2016, just as much as in 2015.
Belarus’ power generating companies decreased electrical power output by 3.2% YoY in 2015 to 30.6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). Electric power consumption dropped by 3.5% to 36.7 billion kWh.
In 2015 Belarus imported 2.82 billion kWh of electric energy, down by 26.4% YoY. (Prime-TASS/Business World Magazine)
