Ukraine in January-February increased electricity exports by 37.2% YoY (by 263.9 million kWh), to 972.5 million kWh, a source in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has reported.
Electricity supplies from the Burshtyn TPP energy island towards Hungary, Slovakia and Romania increased by 48.4% (by 257.3 million kWh), to 788.5 million kWh.
Electricity deliveries to Poland rose by 5.3% (by 9.3 million kWh), to 184.1 million kWh.
Ukrainian electricity was not exported to Moldova, Belarus and Russia in January-February, while in the same period of 2016 these countries were supplied with 2.6 million kWh.
In February exports of Ukrainian electricity amounted to 413.3 million kWh, up by 13.9% YoY (or by 50.3 million kWh).
In addition, Ukraine in January-February imported 8.3 million kWh of electricity (8.1 million kWh from the Russian Federation, 200,000 kWh from Belarus) against 10.7 million kWh in the two months of 2016. (Interfax-Ukraine/Business World Magazine)