“We hope full-year consumption will decline by less than 4% in 2013,” Octavian Lohan, head of Transelectrica’s energy dispatching division, told Mediafax.
In September, Transelectrica estimated a 5.1% decline in this year’s electricity consumption to 51.17 terawatt-hours. In 2012, Romanian electricity consumption fell 3.8% on year to 56.06 TWh.
Power consumption is forecast to decline at an annual pace of 4% by 2017, largely due to the effects of the global financial crisis.