Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January-November, taking into account in-process losses, decreased by 3.6% (by 4.917 billion kWh) compared to the same period in 2019, to 131.305 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy reported.
Excluding in-process losses, electricity consumption over 11 months decreased by 3.2% (by 3.456 billion kWh), to 105.864 billion kWh.
The country’s industry, excluding in-process losses, reduced electricity consumption by 4.6%, to 44.768 billion kWh. In particular, metallurgical industry consumed 24.767 billion kWh (-6.4%), fuel industry 2.791 billion kWh -(-5.6%), machine building industry – 2.791 billion kWh (-16.5%), chemical and petrochemical – 3.953 billion kWh (+11.7%), food and processing – 3.953 billion kWh (-3.7%), construction materials – 2.116 billion kWh (+1.9%) and others – 4.422 billion kWh (+4.1%).
In addition, agricultural enterprises consumed 3.411 billion kWh (+0.2%), transport – 5.103 billion kWh (-14.5%) and construction – 831.2 million kWh (-4%).
The population consumed 32.583 billion kWh (+2.4%), household consumers – 12.719 billion kWh (-6.7%) and other non-industrial consumers – 6.449 billion kWh (-3.9%).
The share of industry in the total volume of electricity consumption decreased from 42.9% to 42.3%, while the share of the population increased from 29.1% to 30.8%. (Open4Business/Business World Magazine)
