Electricity generation by all power plants of state-owned enterprise Energoatom in January-August 2019 decreased by 0.5% (by 323.1 million kWh) compared to the same period last year, to 60.729 billion kWh.
According to the press service of the company, the plan for production of electricity for the specified period in 2019 was exceeded by 0.9%.
The power plants of the state enterprise supplied 57.02 billion kWh of electricity to the market compared with 57.376 billion kWh in January-September 2018.
The share of Energoatom in the overall structure of electricity production in the country amounted to 53.2%, which is 0.5 percentage points more than January-September 2018.
The volume of capital investments for the nine months amounted to UAH 8.172 billion compared with UAH 8.1 billion for the same period a year earlier. The financing of capital investments amounted to UAH 10.739 billion compared with UAH 8.599 billion respectively.
Energoatom transferred UAH 9.55 billion to the budgets of all levels, insurance payments amounted to UAH 1.928 billion.
The installed capacity utilization factor of the company’s nuclear power plants amounted to 66.8%, which is 0.4 p.p. more than in January-September 2018.
In January-August, 10 violations were recorded in the operation of Ukrainian nuclear power plants (16 in the first nine months of 2018).
Energoatom is the operator of all four operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine. It operates 15 power units equipped with water-cooled power reactors with a total installed electric capacity of 13.835 GW.