Ukraine increased electricity imports by 34% in April 2024

In April 2024, Ukraine increased electricity imports by 34%, compared to March 2024 - to more than 225,000 MWh. This is evidenced by the data of the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, which ExPro refers to the Electricity Daily monitoring .

The export of electricity in April decreased 10 times compared to the previous month - to 12,013 MWh.

Compared to April 2023, this year imports increased 53 times, but exports decreased 8 times.

The largest share in the structure of imports by direction was taken by Hungary - 43.7%, the smallest - by Poland with 6.4%. The largest export was also to Hungary - 35.3%. The reason for the reduction in electricity exports in April 2024 is the loss of domestic generation capacities as a result of shelling of the energy infrastructure at the end of March and in April. Export was available only on some days, during the daytime period, during high activity of solar generation.

The average daily volume of imports in April 2024 was 7.5 thousand MWh, the peak of imports was on April 1 - more than 14 thousand MWh.