Bulgaria: Electricity production reached 39.6 TWh in first 11 months
4 January 2024
Electricity production in Bulgaria between January and December 2023 declined by 20.8% to 39,593 GWh, the Electricity System Operator (ESO) said.
In the same period, electricity consumption dropped by an annual 4.17% to 36,586 GWh.
In 2022 annual domestic power output increased 5.7% to 50,422 GWh while consumption was 1.8% lower and reached 38,177 GWh.
Bulgaria’s electricity trade surplus decreased by 72.5% in January-December 2023 to 3,367 GWh in 2023, the latest ESO data show.
The output of thermal power plant fell by 25.66% to 31,858 GWh last year.
At the same time, the volume of renewable energy in the transmission network jumped by 59.5% to 2,516 GWh, whereas the volume of renewable energy in the distribution grid grew by 13.74% to 2,486 GWh.
The output of hydropower plants slides 18.6% to 3,093 GWh.
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