Open-ended contracts in use at 206 000 consumption points

At the beginning of May, there was an electricity purchase agreement in place at 580 000 consumption points, and of those, 206 000 were using open-ended contracts.

The number of open-ended contracts grew last month by 6000, which is a higher figure than usual. The reason for the higher growth was the fact that the Starman electricity sales client portfolio was taken over by Alexela Energia at the beginning of May. There were almost 374 000 fixed-term contracts in place in early May.

Consumption points without an electricity purchase agreement, or universal service users, numbered around 137 000, or 1000 fewer than a month ago. Although universal service users make up 19 per cent of the total number of consumption points, their share of electricity consumption fell in March and accounted for only 4.8 per cent of total consumption.

The market shares of the electricity sellers for the last few months are presented in the table below. The weights of the portfolios are based on measurements of regional consumption volumes, which include network operators’ network losses in additional to universal service volumes. Fixed-supply consumers have not been included in calculations, the result of which is that the actual market shares of sellers may differ slightly from the information given in the table.