Statistics: Electricity production falls by 61 per cent on year, to July
Production by industrial enterprises decreased by 5 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in July, Statistics Estonia reported. The decline was fueled by decreases in both energy and mining output, though production increased in manufacturing over the same time frame. Electricity production saw a large fall y-o-y.
Total industrial production fell by 3 percent y-o-y, Statistics Estonia reports.
Electricity production fell as much as 61 percent y-o-y. Redundancies have been made at some of state-owned generator Eesti Energia's plants in eastern Estonia, mostly those which burn oil shale. Energy production used in heating did actually rise a little, by 2 percent y-o-y.
Manufacturing saw a 2 percent y-o-y rise, with over half of the sector's sub-groups seeing a rise on 2018. Food products, computers, electronic products and wood products were the strongest performers.
Building materials and electrical equipment manufacture saw a fall, however.
Sixty-four percent of manufacturing output was exported, and overall exports here increased by 7 percent y-o-y, according to unadjusted data.
Domestic manufacturing sales rose by 13 percent.
Compared with the previous month, however, manufacturing fell by 1 percent (see also diagram above).
A more detailed breakdown by sector is available at the Statistics Estonia website here.
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Editor: Andrew Whyte
