Supply of electricity up by nearly 5% in 2019
Two-thirds still being generated by power plants
Electricity supply last year increased by 4.8% over the previous year, the National Statistics Office said.
The NSO said the volume of electricity generated in 2019 reached 2,653.7GWh with 67.8% coming from power plants, 24% from imports and 8.2% from renewable sources.
Electricity production from power plants registered an increase of 5.4% when compared to the previous year.
Energy harvesting from renewable sources registered an increase of 10.2%, reaching 218.1GWh in 2019.
Most of the renewable energy (97%) was produced from photovoltaic panels.
A total of 656.8GWh were imported through the interconnector, registering an increase of 4% compared to the previous year.
August (283.6 GWh) had the highest amount of electricity supplied during 2019 with a share of 10.7%. This was followed by July (279.3 GWh) with a share of 10.5%.
July and August featured the highest electricity demand, registering 504MW and 485MW respectively. The highest annual average demand was registered in 2019 with 414MW, an increase of 6.9% per cent when compared to the previous year.
In 2019, emissions from power plant sources increased by 6% over 2018.