Electricity production increases by 49 per cent in August

In Estonia, 1006 gigawatt-hours of electricity was produced this August, which is a 49 per cent increase in a year-on-year comparison. Electricity consumption increased by four per cent, reaching 614 gigawatt-hours.

In comparison with August of last year, production from fossil fuels increased by 55 per cent and from renewable resources by 14 per cent. As a result of dominant strong winds and precipitation in August, production increased by 63 per cent in wind power plants and sevenfold in hydro power plants. A little over half of renewable energy production came from biomass, 44 per cent from wind and three per cent from hydropower sources.  The share of renewable energy amounted to 15.6 per cent of domestic power consumption, which is almost three per cent more than in August of last year.

In August, the Estonian electricity balance was in surplus and the amount of energy exports was remarkable – 39 per cent of domestic production moved to neighbouring systems. Transit flows decreased by 62 per cent in a yearly comparison, reaching 124 gigawatt-hours.

In Latvia, electricity production decreased by 16 per cent in a year-on-year comparison, totalling 354 gigawatt-hours. Electricity consumption did not change in comparison with last year and the electricity balance ran a deficit of 205 gigawatt-hours in Latvia.

In the Lithuanian electricity system, 182 gigawatt-hours of electricity was produced, a decrease of 35 per cent in a year-on-year comparison. Electricity consumption decreased by one per cent, reaching 838 gigawatt-hours; therefore, the Lithuanian electricity balance deficit increased by 15 per cent, reaching 656 gigawatt-hours. 22 per cent of gross electricity consumption in Lithuania was covered by local power plants.

In the Baltic states as a whole, electricity production increased by 12 per cent and consumption by one per cent in comparison with August of last year. The gross deficit for electricity balance in the three countries decreased by 25 per cent, reaching 469 gigawatt-hours. The deficit totalled 23 per cent of the three countries’ consumption.

However, electricity production in the Nordic countries decreased by five per cent and consumption remained at the same level in comparison with the previous year. Production increased in Denmark and Finland and decreased in Sweden and Norway. In the Nordic countries, the electricity balance was in surplus with 170 gigawatt-hours in August. The surplus during the same period last year was 1728 gigawatt-hours.