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UKRAINE INCREASES ELECTRICITY EXPORTS BY 6% 2018

22 March , 2018  

Ukraine increases electricity exports 6.1% in January and February 2018 year-on-year to 1.032 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry told Interfax-Ukraine.
Electricity supplies from the Burshtyn thermal power plant energy island in the direction of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania for the three month fell 17.8% compared to January and February 2017, to 647.887 million kWh.
Electricity supplies to Poland rose 56.6% to 288.352 million kWh. Ukraine exported 96.014 million kWh to Moldova in January and February 2018 compared to nil a year earlier.
No electricity was exported to Belarus or Russia in January and February 2018 or January and February 2017.
Ukraine imported 6.26 million kWh of electricity in January and February 2018 (of which 6.024 million kWh from Russia and 0.236 million kWh from Belarus) versus 8.293 million kWh in the same period last year. Energomarket contracts account for the imports as technological transfers.