Ukraine's electricity exports halve due to Russian strikes – Energy Map
Ukraine's electricity exports have halved, falling to 83,600 MWh, while imports have increased by 49% to 19,400 MWh.
Source: Energy Map portal
Details: Significant changes in electricity exports and imports occurred in the middle of this week. On 12-14 October, daily exports amounted to 19,900-25,200 MWh, but after yet another massive Russian attack on 15-17 October, they dropped to 4,200-6,600 MWh.
On 18 October, exports amounted to just 500 MWh. Imports remained stable throughout the week at 2,600-3,100 MWh per day.
Structure of imports by country:
- Hungary – 12,300 MWh (63.3%)
- Romania – 5,600 MWh (29.0%)
- Poland – 1,500 MWh (7.5%)
- Moldova – 30 MWh (0.2%)
The volume of purchases from Poland has increased by 103%, from Romania by 56% and from Hungary by 41%, while the volume bought from Moldova has decreased by 30% (insignificant volumes). There have been no supplies from Slovakia for six consecutive weeks.
Structure of exports by country:
- Hungary – 42,000 MWh (50.2%)
- Moldova – 24,400 MWh (29.2%)
- Romania – 16,600 MWh (19.9%)
- Poland – 600 MWh (0.7%)
Exports have decreased across all destinations: to Poland by 66% (insignificant volumes), to Moldova by 57% and to Hungary and Romania by half. There were no sales of electricity to Slovakia.
Background: At the beginning of October, the Ministry of Energy reported that Russian attacks had caused several elements of the power grid supplying Kyiv to shut down, leaving a significant number of consumers in some areas of the capital without a stable power supply.
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