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End-user electricity consumption for January 2009 amounted to 4388.6 million KWh, 6.9% lower YOY. According to the National Statistics Institute (INS), public lighting dropped 0.5%, whereas household consumption grew 8.3.%. Electricity exportation dropped 90.8 million KWh, which represents a 15.7% drop.
Primary energy resources dropped 22.9% in January, whereas electricity resources dropped 8.5% YOY. The main primary energy sources for January totaled 2718.61 thousands tons of oil equivalent (toi), down 806.5 thousands tons of oil equivalent. Domestic production amounted to 2020.7 thousand tons of oil equivalent, down 6% YOY, while imports amounted to 697.9 thousand tons of oil equivalent, down 49.2%.
During this period, electricity resources amounted to 5773.6 million KWh, down 537.2 million KWh (-8.5%) YOY. The drop in electricity resources was caused predominantly by a drop in output, by 591.2 million kWh (-9.5%).
Thermal power plant output dropped 358.9 million KWh (-9.7%). Hydroelectric power plants output dropped 241.6 million kWh (-16.5%), whereas nuclear-electric output increased to 9.3 million kWh (+0.9%).
Out of the total energy output for January, 59.6% came from thermal power stations, 21.6% from hydroelectric power stations, 18.8% from nuclear-electric power plants, and 2.6% from imports. The economy"s consumed 57% of the total output, whereas household consumption reached 17.7%, and technological consumption reached 15.6% and 8.4% of the output was exported.
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