KYIV. July 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine in January-June 2017 increased electricity exports by 44.5% (by 974.8 million kWh) compared to the same period in 2016, to 3.164 billion kWh, a source in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Electricity supplies from the Burshtyn TPP energy island towards Hungary, Slovakia and Romania increased by 21.3% (by 324.9 million kWh), to 1.853 billion kWh.
Electricity deliveries to Poland declined by 6.3% (by 41.5 million kWh), to 615.6 million kWh.
A total of 695.1 million kWh was exported to Moldova compared with 3.7 million kWh in January-June 2016.
Ukrainian electricity was not exported to Belarus and Russia in January-June 2017.
In June 2017 exports of Ukrainian electricity amounted to 545.1 million kWh, which is 1.7 times (219 million kWh) more than in June 2016. This is linked to resumption of commercial exports to Moldova.
In addition, Ukraine in January-June 2017 imported 26.2 million kWh of electricity (25.6 million kWh from the Russian Federation, 600,000 kWh from Belarus) against 44.9 million kWh in the six months of 2016.
