Month after month, gas consumption was lower this year than last year. Until September, when sales to end consumers rose significantly year-on-year for the first time – by 6.1 percent to about 4.9 terawatt hours (TWh). The main reason for this was the cold weather, the regulatory agency E-Control said Friday. But electricity generation from gas-fired power stations has also increased. Electricity consumption, on the other hand, decreased by 3.4 percent year-on-year.
The electricity consumption of 5.34 TWh in September does not include the consumption for pump storage. At 5.3 TWh, electricity production was 8.4 percent higher than a year ago.
Less hydropower, more heat and wind
The hydroelectric power stations produced 0.12 TWh or 3.8 percent less electrical energy. In contrast, thermal power generation increased 0.38 TWh or 47.2 percent to 1.18 TWh, while gas-fired power plants produced about 0.7 TWh, more than twice as much electricity as in the same month of the previous year. The number of wind turbines also increased in September: they produced 0.45 TWh, making their share of total electricity production in September 8.4 percent.
The exchange of electricity with other countries decreased. With about 1.91 TWh, 25.7 percent less was imported than in the same month of the previous year. Physical exports of electricity fell by 3.3 percent to 1.37 TWh in the same period.
Gas storage level 50 percent higher than last year
Domestic gas production (including injecting biogenic gases) at 0.57 TWh was 4.1 percent below last year’s result. At the end of the month, the storage tanks were filled with 76.2 TWh of gas – six months ago.
Source: Krone
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