Electricity production falls, consumption rises

Estonian electricity production in the last four months of the year dropped compared to the same period last year, but consumption increased.

Production fell in October by ten per cent compared with the same period last year, with a total of 960 gigawatt-hours of electricity generated. Production from renewable sources fell by 12 per cent to 136 gigawatt-hours, and production from non-renewable sources fell by ten per cent to 824 gigawatt-hours.

Electricity consumption grew in the last month by four per cent to a total of 740 gigawatt-hours. The share of electricity produced from renewable sources made up 16.3 per cent of domestic consumption in October. In total, local production exceeded electricity consumption by 220 gigawatt-hours.

Trade imports of electricity energy in October this year totalled 192 gigawatt-hours, growing by 119 gigawatt-hours year-on-year. Trade exports fell by three per cent during the same period to 409 gigawatt-hours. A total of 86 per cent of electricity imports came via the Estonia-Finland interconnections and 14 per cent via the Estonia-Latvia connections. Of electricity exports, 77 per cent went to Latvia, and 23 per cent to Finland. In total, the monthly Estonian electricity trade balance saw a surplus of 218 gigawatt-hours.

Latvian electricity production in October grew by about 18 per cent year-on-year to 618 gigawatt-hours. The increase in production was due to the continued high availability of hydro resources—in October this year, the average water flow in Latvia’s Daugava River was 813 cubic metres per second, compared with 206 cubic metres per second at the same time last year. Electricity generation from hydro and wind energy made up 61 per cent of total Latvian output.

Gross electricity production in the Baltic States grew by a total of two per cent compared with October last year, while consumption grew by three per cent. The electricity balance in the three countries saw a deficit of 428 gigawatt-hours, or 19 per cent of total consumption in the Baltic States

In the Nordic Countries, production grew by two per cent, while consumption fell by one per cent. The balance in October saw a surplus of 949 gigawatt-hours.