Electricity consumption in Ukraine in January 2016, including in-process losses on Ukrainian power grids, decreased by 5.9% compared to January 2015, to 14.65 billion kilowatt-hours.

A source in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry told Interfax-Ukraine that electricity consumption, excluding in-process losses, fell by 8.1%, 10.869 billion kWh.

Industrial enterprises, excluding in-process losses, reduced electricity consumption by 11.4%, to 4.096 billion kWh. In particular steel industry consumed 2.184 billion kWh (15.4% down from January 2015), fuel 321.3 million kWh (40% down), machine building 350.8 million kWh (1% down), chemical and petrochemical 297.8 million kWh (3.1% down), food and processing 363.5 million kWh (12.5% up), construction materials 165.5 million kWh (24.3% up), and others 412.8 million kWh (6.4% up).

In addition, agricultural companies consumed 285.1 million kWh (1.7% up), transport 671.2 million kWh (1.8% up), construction 79.6 million kWh (1.7% down).

In January 2016, the public consumed 3.69 billion kWh (7.5% down), households 1.46 billion kWh (7.5% down), other non-industrial consumers 588.4 million kWh (5.5% down).

The share of industry in total electricity consumption in January 2016 decreased from 39.1% to 37.7% compared to January 2015, while the share of the population rose from 33.7% to 33.9%.