Electricity Market Figures up to April 2019

Because of the behavior of the energy supply from thermal sources, between the first quarter of 2018 and the same period of 2019 the generation of electricity in Panama grew 4%.

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The most recent figures of the General Comptroller of Panama, detail that in the first four months of 2019 were generated 3,672 million kwh, which is equivalent to a 4.1% increase over the 3,526 million offered in the same period of 2018.

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The figures specify that from January to April in the country 1,683 million kwh of electricity generated from renewable sources were offered, including hydropower, wind and solar, a figure that is 38.2% lower than the 2,724 million kwh reported in the same period of 2018.

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For the periods concerned, thermal power generation increased by 129%, from 734 million kwh to 1.68 billion kwh.

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