Ukraine increases electricity exports by 30.4% in three months of 2016

18:44, 22.04.2016 1 min read

Ukraine in January-March 2016 increased electricity exports by 30.4% compared to the same period in 2015, to 1.158 billion kWh, a source in 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 for the three months decreased by 3.5% compared to January-March 2015, to 853.694 million kWh.

Electricity supplies to Poland amounted to 300.215 million kWh, while in January-March 2015 they were not carried out.

In January-March 2016 Moldova was supplied 3.702 million kWh of power, Belarus was not supplied electricity.

Ukrainian electricity was not exported to Russia in January-March 2015 and January-March 2016.

At the same time, in March 2016 exports of Ukrainian electricity amounted to 448.975 million kWh, which is 15.3% up year-on-year.

In addition, Ukraine in January-March 2016 imported 14.607 million kWh of electricity against 1.239 billion kWh for the three months of 2015.