Ukraine's integrated power grids decreased electricity output by 0.1% year-over-year in January 2013, to 18.438 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an Energy and Coal Industry Ministry source has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Nuclear power plants last month increased electricity output by 0.8%, to 8.426 billion kWh.
In particular, Zaporizhia nuclear power plant saw an increase of 11.2% in electricity generation, to 3.851 billion kWh, Rivne nuclear power plant increased production by 31.1%, to 1.733 billion kWh, while Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant saw a 47.7% decrease, to 750 million kWh, and Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plants decreased output by 2%, to 2.092 billion kWh over the period under review.
The ministry’s thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants decreased their electricity output by 5.1%, to 8.058 billion kWh, including a fall of 4% in output at generating companies’ thermal power plants, to 6.795 billion kWh, while combined heat and power plants cut it by 10.4%, to 1.263 billion kWh.
Hydropower plants saw a 43.7% increase in power generation, to 1.004 billion kWh, while municipally owned heat stations and district power stations increased electricity output by 1.5%, to 893 million kWh.
The generation of electricity from non-traditional sources (wind farms, solar power plants, biomass) grew by 2.2 times in January 2013, to 57 million kWh.
The share of nuclear power plants was 45.7% of Ukraine’s overall electricity output. The ministry’s thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants accounted for 43.7%, hydropower plants for 5.5%, while the share of municipally owned heat stations and district power stations was 4.8%. The share of alternative energy sources in the total electricity output was 0.3%.
The nuclear power plants, thermal power plants and district boiler houses in January 2013 cut heat sales compared to the same period last year by 1.6%, having sold 4.332 million Gcal.
