Electricity consumption in Ukraine, taking into account in-process losses in power grids, decreased 2.6% in 2020 compared to 2019, to 146.394 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Excluding in-process losses electricity consumption in 2020 fell by 2.1%, to 117.656 billion kWh.
The country’s industry, excluding in-process losses, reduced electricity consumption by 3.8%, to 49.196 billion kWh. In particular, metallurgical industry consumed 27.105 billion kWh (5.5% less compared to 2019), fuel industry some 3.225 billion kWh (5% less), machine building industry some 3.126 billion kWh (14.7% less), chemical and petrochemical some 4.144 billion (10.6% more), food and processing some 4.34 billion kWh (3.3% less), construction some 2.332 billion kWh (3% more), others some 4.924 billion kWh (0.5% more).
In addition, agricultural enterprises consumed 3.814 billion kWh (2.8% more), transport some 5.719 billion kWh (13.4% less), developers some 949.8 million kWh (1.8% less).
In 2020 the country’s population consumed 36.436 billion kWh (3.4% more), households some 14.179 billion kWh (5.9% less) and other non-industrial consumers some 7.363 billion kWh (1.6% less).
The share of industry in total electricity consumption in 2020 fell from 42.6% to 41.8%, while the share of the population grew to 31% from 29.3%.
In December 2020, electricity consumption, taking into account in-process losses, decreased 7.3% compared to 2019, to 15.043 billion kWh, and excluding in-process losses it fell by 4.9%, to 11.435 billion kWh.
The volume of electricity imports to the integrated power system (IPS) of Ukraine from Belarus since the beginning of the year amounted to 150 MWh, to the Burshtyn TPP Island from Slovakia it was 30 MWh, according to data on the website of the system operator NPC Ukrenergo as of Monday.
According to the NPC data, 133 MWh of electricity was exported to Hungary (93 MWh) and Romania (40 MWh).
According to the results of the daily auction on January 1, published on the NPC website, the interstate sections in the direction of Belarus-Ukraine were purchased by DE Trading LLC and Dniprostal-energo LLC – 1,200 MW (50 MW every hour) and 540 MW (60 MW in the first four hours and last five hours of the day), respectively.
The section in the direction of Slovakia-Ukraine was purchased by TAS Energy Country LLC (only 200 MW per day). The same company bought out 150 MW in the direction of Ukraine-Hungary.
Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January-November 2020, 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 has told Interfax-Ukraine.
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% less compared to January-November 2019), fuel industry 2.791 billion kWh (5.6% less), machine building industry – 2.791 billion kWh (16.5% less), chemical and petrochemical – 3.953 billion kWh (11.7% more), food and processing – 3.953 billion kWh (3.7% down), construction materials – 2.116 billion kWh (1.9% more), others – 4.422 billion kWh (4.1% more).
In addition, agricultural enterprises consumed 3.411 billion kWh (0.2% more), transport – 5.103 billion kWh (14.5% less), construction – 831.2 million kWh (4% less).
The population of the country consumed 32.583 billion kWh (2.4% more), household consumers – 12.719 billion kWh (6.7% less), other non-industrial consumers – 6.449 billion kWh (down by 3.9%).
According to the results of 11 months, 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%.
Ukraine in January-November 2020 reduced electricity exports by 23.1% (1.331 billion kWh) compared to the same period in 2019, to 4.425 billion kWh, according to Ukrenergo.
According to the calculations of the Interfax-Ukraine agency, the supply of electricity from the Burshtyn TPP energy island to Hungary, Slovakia and Romania decreased by 28.5% (by 1.121 billion kWh), to 2.805 billion kWh.
Electricity supplies to Poland increased by 12% (by 147.9 million kWh), to 1.381 billion kWh.
Electricity supplies to Moldova amounted to 156 million kWh, which is 73.9% (441 million kWh) less than in January-November 2019.
Since the beginning of the year, exports to Belarus amounted to 82.8 million kWh.
Ukrainian electricity was not exported to Russia.
At the same time, over the 11 months, Ukraine also reduced electricity imports by 2% (by 43 million kWh) compared to the same period last year, to 2.156 billion kWh. In particular, 1.356 billion kWh were supplied from Slovakia, 506.9 million kWh from Hungary, 152.3 million kWh from Belarus, 87.9 million kWh from Romania, 53.4 million kWh from the Russian Federation.
The metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine in January-October this year increased consumption of natural gas by 1% compared to the same period last year, to 1.55 billion cubic meters.
According to the information of the Ukrmetalurgprom association, electricity consumption by metallurgical enterprises during this period amounted to about 9.12 billion kWh (96% compared to January-October 2019).
As reported, Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises in 2019 reduced natural gas consumption by 2% compared to 2018, to 1.8 billion cubic meters. Electricity consumption
Electricity production in the united energy system of Ukraine in January-October 2020 decreased by 5.4% (by 6.888 billion kWh) compared to the same period in 2019, to 119.819 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Nuclear power plants (NPP) for the ten months of this year reduced electricity generation by 6% compared to the same period last year, to 63.030 billion kWh. In particular, production of electricity at Zaporizhia NPP amounted to 22.248 billion kWh (29.6% less compared to January-October 2019), Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP some 15.126 billion kWh (6.9% more), Rivne NPP some 15.929 billion kWh (6.5% more), Khmelnytsky NPP some 9.727 billion kWh (up by 52.5%).
Thermal power plants (TPP), as well as combined heat and power plants (CHPP) and cogeneration plants reduced their output by 16.2%, to 39.317 billion kWh. In particular, the generating companies of TPPs reduced production by 23.7%, to 29.544 billion kWh, while CHPP and cogeneration plants increased it by 19.3%, to 9.774 billion kWh.
Hydro power plants and pumped storage power plants reduced production by 6.1%, to 6.237 billion kWh, and block stations increased by 8.2%, to 1.601 billion kWh.
Electricity production by non-traditional sources (wind power plants, solar power plants, biomass) increased by 2.1 times, to 9.634 billion kWh.
The share of nuclear power plants in the structure of electricity production amounted to 52.6%, TPPs, CHPPs and cogeneration plants 32.8%, hydro power plants and pumped storage power plants 5.2%, block stations 1.3%, alternative sources 8%.
