Electricity consumption in Ukraine, taking into account in-process losses in power grids, increased 3.7% in January 2021 compared to January 2020, to 14.484 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Excluding in-process losses electricity consumption in January 2021 grew by 5.8%, to 11.662 billion kWh.
The country’s industry, excluding in-process losses, boosted electricity consumption by 5.2%, to 4.403 billion kWh. In particular, metallurgical industry consumed 2.349 billion kWh (1.6% more compared to January 2020), fuel industry some 296.8 million kWh (1% more), machine building industry some 349.5 million kWh (13.7% more), chemical and petrochemical some 380.3 million (14.4% more), food and processing some 365.5 million kWh (2.5% more), building materials some 190.9 million kWh (26.4% more), others some 471.3 million kWh (8.6% more).
In addition, agricultural enterprises consumed 332.6 million kWh (11.1% more), transport some 572.3 million kWh (5.2% less), developers some 107.1 million kWh (10.4% more).
In January 2021, the country’s population consumed 3.954 billion kWh (8.3% more), households some 1.517 billion kWh (5% more) and other non-industrial consumers some 776.4 million kWh (4.3% more).
The share of industry in total electricity consumption in January 2021 fell to 37.8% from 38%, while the share of the population grew to 33.9% from 33.1%.
