450 new electricity consumption points added at the beginning of June

The number of electricity consumption points in Estonia grows every month by several hundred, and according to statistics from Elering’s smart grid platform, at the beginning of June there were 450 consumption points more than a month prior.

In total, Estonia has 721 200 consumption points with an electricity connection, of which 581 500 have concluded an electricity purchase agreement. The remaining fifth of consumption points use universal service, and according to legislation, they are sold electricity by their local network operator. Electricity bought from universal service made up only five per cent of total electricity consumption in Estonia in June.

Electricity sellers can be changed at the beginning of every calendar month. At the beginning of June, almost 800 consumption points decided to change their electricity seller. The more active periods for changing sellers are usually at the end of the quarter and the year.

The market shares of electricity sellers’ balance portfolios for recent months are set out in the table below. Portfolio weighting is based on regional measured consumption volumes, which include network operators’ network losses as well as universal service volumes. Fixed deliveries to consumers are not taken into account, the result of which may be that sellers’ actual sales volumes differ slightly from those in the table below.