Over 4 months, electricity consumption in Russia increased by 2.2%

According to operational information of SO UPS JSC, electricity consumption for the four months of 2022 in Russia as a whole amounted to 398.6 billion kWh, which is 2.2% more than for the same period in 2021. In the UPS of Russia, electricity consumption since the beginning of the year amounted to 392.4 billion kWh, which is also 2.2% more than in January-April 2021.

Since the beginning of 2022, electricity generation in Russia as a whole amounted to 407.1 billion kWh, which is 2.2% more than in January-April 2021. Electricity generation in the UPS of Russia for four months of 2022 amounted to 400.9 billion kWh, which is also 2.2% more than the same period last year.

During four months of 2022, thermal power plants carried the main burden for meeting the demand for electricity in the UPS of Russia, the generation of which amounted to 233.9 billion kWh, which is 2.6% more than in January-April 2021. HPP generation over the same period amounted to 62.9 billion kWh (1.6% less than in the first four months of 2021), nuclear power plant generation - 77.5 billion kWh (3.1% more than in the same period of 2021), the output of power plants of industrial enterprises is 23.8 billion kWh (1.4% more than in January-April 2021).

The total volumes of consumption and generation of electricity in Russia as a whole are made up of indicators of electricity consumption and generation of facilities located in the Unified Power System of Russia, and facilities operating in technologically isolated territorial energy systems (Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, Kamchatka Territory, Sakhalin Region, Magadan Region, Chukotka Autonomous district). The actual performance indicators of the energy systems of technologically isolated territories are presented by the entities of the operational dispatch control of these power systems.