In 2020

Electricity production decreased by 7.2% from the previous year

In 2020, the electricity production, estimated from the data on the distribution of electric energy provided by the Electricity Company of Madeira, decreased by 7.2% compared with the previous year.

Breaking down the data by source it should be highlighted that the electricity generated by hydropower increased by 46.5%. This increase was accompanied by a drop in the production through other sources, mainly by wind (-11.1%), thermal power (-10.5%) and photovoltaic (-9.0%). Consequently, the share of distributed energy using thermal source went from 75.8% in 2019 to 73.1% in the reference period, which means that the production of renewable energy has increased to a share of 26.9% in 2020 (24.2% in the previous year).

It should also be mentioned that the production of electric energy using natural gas represented 20.1% of the total production mix, slightly decreasing by 1.0% year-on-year.

In the 4^th quarter 2020, the distribution of electric energy decreased by 6.1% from the year-ago quarter.

DREM releases data on the energy balance for the year 2019

DREM publishes today on its website data compiled by the Directorate-General for Energy and Geology (DGEG), namely the energy balance for 2019.

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• Tables
• Energy Balance - Tables
• Energy Balance - Time series

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