Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January-July 2021, taking into account in-process losses in power grids, increased by 6.2% compared to the same period in 2020, to 89.179 billion kWh, according to recent data from the Ministry of Energy.
According to the calculations of the Interfax-Ukraine agency, without taking into account in-process losses, electricity consumption for the specified period increased by 6.5%, to 72.438 billion kWh.
The country’s industry, excluding in-process losses, increased electricity consumption by 6.3%, to 30.207 billion kWh. Metallurgical industry consumed 16.791 billion kWh (more by 5.1% compared to January-July 2020), fuel industry – 1.903 billion kWh (2.6% up), machine building industry – 2.068 billion kWh (up by 14.2%), chemical and petrochemical – 2.558 billion kWh (up by 9.5%), food and processing – 2.404 billion kWh (down by 1.8%), building materials – 1.492 billion kWh (up by 20.3%), others – 2.991 billion kWh (up by 8.1%).
In addition, agricultural enterprises consumed 1.983 billion kWh (down by 7.1%), transport – 3.525 billion kWh (up by 9.4%), construction – 629.9 million kWh (up by 17.8%).
Over the seven months of this year, the population of the country consumed 22.661 billion kWh (up by 5.3%), household consumers – 8.664 billion kWh (up by 7.5%), other non-industrial consumers – 4.768 billion kWh (up by 15.1%).
According to the results of the seven months, the share of industry in the total volume of electricity consumption decreased from 41.8% to 41.7%, and the share of the population – from 31.6% to 31.3%.
