ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION IN ITALY: +0.3% IN APRIL AND STABLE IN THE FIRST QUARTER Rome, May 8, 2015 - Third month in a row with a plus sign for electricity demand in Italy. After February and March, also in the last month the consumption trend remained positive: in April, in fact, electricity consumption in Italy was 24.1 billion kWh, increasing by 0.3% against the corresponding month of 2014.

The variation in the electricity demand in April 2015 is -1.4%, when adjusted for the combined effects of the calendar and the temperature. Compared to the corresponding month of 2014 there was one more business day (21 vs 20) and an average monthly temperature around one degree lower.
In the first quarter of 2015, the electricity demand remained more or less at the same level as compared to the volumes in the corresponding period of last year, even with the same number of days.
The 24.1 billion kWh demand in April 2015 was distributed as follows: 46.1% in the North, 29.6% in
Central Italy and 24.3% in the South.
At the regional level, the April 2015 variation trend was negative in the North (-0.3%), positive in
Central Italy and in the South (+0.9% for both).
In April 2015, 85.4% of the electricity demand was met with national production while the remaining part (14.6%) was provided by the balance of electricity exchanged with foreign countries. More specifically, the net national production (20.7 billion kWh) dropped by 3.1% compared to January April 2014. Thermal (+4.3%), geothermal (+7.1%) and photovoltaic (+20.8%) energy production increased, while hydroelectric (-31.2%) and wind power (-0.3%) production both decreased.
The short-term profile for April 2015 showed a seasonally adjusted variation in electricity demand compared to the previous month equal to -0.2%. The trend remains slightly negative.
The detailed analysis of provisional 2015 and 2014 monthly electricity demand is available in the publication "Rapporto Mensile sul Sistema Elettrico", (Italian version only) under the section "Sistema elettrico >> Dispacciamento >>Dati esercizio" at www.terna.it

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