Electricity imports in January 2025 decreased by 63.2% to 159.09 thousand MWh compared to December 2024, while exports increased 9 times to 63.4 thousand MWh, according to the Energy Map portal.
Thus, according to the calculations of the Energoreforma Internet portal, based on these data, electricity imports in January 2025 exceeded exports by 2.5 times.
Most of the electricity was imported in January from Poland – 50.78 thousand MWh (31.92% of the total). This was followed by Slovakia – 42.46 thousand MWh (26.69%), Hungary – 41.2 thousand MWh (25.9%), Romania – 23.38 thousand MWh (14.7%), and Moldova – 1.26 thousand MWh (0.79%).
In terms of exports in January, Moldova ranks first – 27.14 thousand MWh (42.81%) were supplied there. Hungary exported 21.12 thousand MWh (33.31%), Romania – 8.18 thousand MWh (12.9%), Slovakia – 6.27 thousand MWh (9.89%), Poland – 0.68 thousand MWh (1.08%).
As reported, electricity imports in December 2024 increased by 2.7 times compared to November – up to 433.4 thousand MWh, while exports decreased by 6.1 times – to 6.8 thousand MWh.
“In 2024, Ukraine imported 4436.6 thousand MWh of electricity, which was the highest figure for the last 11 years (actual data before 2014 are not publicly available). At the same time, electricity exports reached a historic low of 348.5 thousand MWh,” says the annual review provided to the Energoreforma project by DiXi Group, a Ukrainian energy and climate think tank.
