Business news from Ukraine

UKRAINE CUTS ELECTRICITY EXPORTS BY 2.7%

29 May , 2019  

Ukraine in January-April 2019 decreased electricity exports by 2.7% (by 59.3 million kWh) compared to the same period in 2018, to 2.13 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Electricity supplies from the Burshtyn TPP Energy Island in the direction of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania increased by 0.01% (by 0.1 million kWh), to 1.421 billion kWh.
Electricity supplies to Poland decreased by 18.6% (by 100.8 million kWh), to 440.3 million kWh.
Electricity supplies to Moldova amounted to 268.4 million kWh, which is 18.2% (41.4 million kWh) more than in January-April 2018.
For the first four months of 2018 and 2019, Ukrainian electricity was not exported to Belarus and Russia.
In addition, in January-April 2019, Ukraine imported 8.7 million kWh of electricity from the Russian Federation and Belarus compared to 11.4 million kWh in January-March 2018.

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