Energy consumption today fell below 3000 MW. It is the lowest since Transelectrica has been providing data

Today, on Easter, energy consumption fell below 3000 MW, the lowest since Transelectrica has been offering interactive measurement data (2007).

The previous record had been reached on Palm Sunday, at 1:43 p.m. Romania’s instantaneous electricity consumption was 3,636 MW. If it is the lowest since 2007, then it is certainly the lowest in Romania’s modern history, considering the industrial consumption of the past decades, much higher than the current one. The day of April 28 marks a new negative consumption record, after, on April 14, a historical minimum was already recorded – 3,900 MW, as Economedia.ro already reported.

Specialists note two main reasons for the low consumption. One relates to the contribution of prosumers, owners of thousands of MW installed, who, benefiting from warm, sunny days, produce their electricity needs internally, without “pulling” from the system. Another reason: general, industrial and household consumption is extremely low. Factories, big consumers are not recovering their production, despite the fact that market prices have fallen a lot, already reaching below the levels before 2022, the year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Alro Slatina, the largest individual consumer of electricity (by capacity, normally, it has 10% of all consumption in Romania), has not recovered its production. Liberty Galati sits in a single furnace. Also, many factories have started to become prosumers as well. In addition, being warm, the population no longer consumes any electricity for heating.