Energy consumption fell in March due to the drop in temperature

Energy consumption fell in March due to the drop in temperature

In the monthly comparison, the total net demand of the Wholesale Electricity Market (MEM) showed a growth of 3.1%, although in this case it influenced that February has three days less than March.

In the classification by type of user, only commercial users (representing 29% of total consumption) registered an interannual increase of 1.5%, while there were decreases among residential users of 4.2% (42% of the total) and 0.7% among industrialists (29%).

It was recorded that there were fifteen provinces or distribution companies that had increases in demand: La Rioja (10%), San Juan (9%), Catamarca (6%), San Luis (6%), Mendoza (5%), EDEA (5%), Jujuy (4%), Misiones (4% ), Salta (4%), Santa Cruz (4%), EDES (3%), Formosa (2%), Edelap (2%), Corrientes (1%) and Córdoba (1%).

For its part, in twelve departments there was a falls: Chubut (-11%), Entre Ríos (-9%), La Pampa (-7%), Santa Fe (-6%), Chaco (-6%), Santiago del Estero (-3%), EDEN (-3%), Río Negro (-1%), Tucumán (-1%) and Neuquén (-1%), in addition to the two distributors of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA).

In this case, the region, which represented 30% of the country’s total consumption in March, had a drop of 3.4%according to the records of the Administrative Company of the Electricity Wholesale Market (Cammesa), with retractions of 3.7% in the coverage area of ​​Edenor and 3% in Edesur.

Source: Ambito

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