Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January-November 2019, taking into account in-process losses in power grids, decreased by 1.2% (by 1.648 billion kWh) compared to the same period in 2018, to 136.220 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Environment Protection has reported.
Excluding in-process losses, electricity consumption for the 11 months decreased by 0.5% (by 586.3 million kWh), to 109.736 billion kWh.
The country’s industry, excluding in-process losses, reduced electricity consumption by 0.6%, to 47.112 billion kWh. In particular, metallurgy consumed 26.623 billion kWh (1.4% less compared to January-November 2018), fuel industry some 3.111 billion kWh (3.5% less), machine building sector some 3.354 billion kWh (8.6% down), chemical and petrochemical some 3.395 billion kWh (19.6% more), food and processing some 4.142 billion kWh (0.6% more), construction materials some 2.073 billion kWh (0.1% more), and others some 4.414 billion kWh (1% down).
In addition, agricultural enterprises consumed 3.430 billion kWh (2.6% less), transport some 5.965 billion kWh (5% less), and construction some 873.5 million kWh (2.5% down).
The population of the country in January-November 2019 consumed 31.981 billion kWh (0.9% less), household consumers some 13.694 billion kWh (1.4% less), and other non-industrial consumers some 6.680 billion kWh (9.4% more).
In the 11 months of 2019, the share of industry in total electricity consumption remained unchanged at 42.9%, and the share of the population decreased from 29.3% to 29.1%.
