Ukraine increased electricity exports 18.3% in January-March 2018 year-on-year to 1.596 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine. Electricity supplies from the Burshtyn thermal power plant energy island in the direction of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania for the three month grew 0.9% compared to January-March 2017, to 1.026 billion kWh.
Electricity supplies to Poland rose 27.6%, to 423.327 million kWh. Ukraine exported 146.218 million kWh to Moldova in January-March 2018 compared to nil a year earlier.
No electricity was exported to Belarus or Russia in January-March 2018 or January-March 2017.
In March 2018, exports of Ukrainian electricity totaled 563.7 million kWh, which is 49.6% more than in March 2017.
Ukraine imported 8.92 million kWh of electricity in January-March 2018 (of which 8.559 million kWh from Russia and 0.361 million kWh from Belarus) versus 11.6 million kWh in the same period last year. Energomarket contracts account for the imports as technological transfers.
EXPORTS, HUNGARY, IMPORTERS, MOLDOVA, POLAND, ROMANIA, SLOVAKIA
The governments of Ukraine and Moldova have signed a memorandum on the synchronization of the work of the energy systems of the two countries with the ENTSO-E energy system of Europe. According to the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the relevant agreements were reached during the meeting of Prime Ministers of Ukraine and Moldova, Volodymyr Groysman and Pavel Filip.
“The parties noted that the energy and economic component of cooperation has a significant growth potential,” the message reads.
During the talks the parties discussed a wide range of road map of cooperation and agreed on the participation of Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Groysman at the GUAM summit in Chisinau in June this year, the press service of the Cabinet said.
