Ukraine posts 2.3% fall in electricity generation in 2013
Ukraine's integrated power grids decreased electricity output by 2.3% or by 4.556 billion kilowatt-hours year-over-year in 2013, to 193.563 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an Energy and Coal Industry Ministry source told Interfax-Ukraine.
Nuclear power plants cut electricity output by 7.7%, to 83.209 billion kWh.
In particular, Zaporizhia nuclear power plant saw a fall of 4.8% in electricity generation, to 38.923 billion kWh, Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plants decreased output by 23.3%, to 13.555 billion kWh, Rivne nuclear power plant cut production by 9.7%, to 16.161 billion kWh, and Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant saw a 6.6% increase, to 14.571 billion kWh over the period under review.
The ministry's thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants cut their electricity output by 2.2%, to 86.58 billion kWh, including a decline of 0.8% in output at generating companies' thermal power plants, to 78.298 billion kWh, while combined heat and power plants cut it by 14.2%, to 8.282 billion kWh.
Hydropower plants in 2013 saw a 31.2% increase in power generation, to 14.215 billion kWh, while municipally owned heat stations and district power stations increased electricity output by 4.5%, to 8.312 billion kWh.
The generation of electricity from non-traditional sources (wind farms, solar power plants, biomass) almost doubled in 2013, to 1.247 billion kWh.
The share of nuclear power plants was 43% of Ukraine's overall electricity output (45.5% in 2012), the ministry's thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants accounted for 44.7% (44.7%), hydropower plants for 7.3% (5.5%), while the share of municipally owned heat stations and district power stations was 4.3% (4%). The share of alternative energy sources in total electricity output was 0.6% (0.3%).
Overall electricity output in December 2013 alone fell by 3.2%, or 608.5 million kWh, from December 2012, to 18.549 billion kWh.
Nuclear power plants, thermal power plants and district boiler houses in 2013 cut heat sales by 4% or 1.079 million Gcal, having sold 25.695 million Gcal.
