Russia's weather-adjusted energy consumption in Jan 2025 unchanged from a year earlier - deputy energy minister

MOSCOW. Jan 29 (Interfax) - Weather-adjusted energy consumption in Russia in January 2025 remained unchanged compared to January 2024, Deputy Energy Minister Evgeny Grabchak told Interfax.

"There is temperature-normalized consumption and there is absolute consumption. Temperature-normalized consumption does not depend on weather conditions," he said.

"Currently, January's results are zero [compared to last year]," Grabchak said regarding the data on weather-adjusted energy consumption.

The forecast for the growth in Russian energy consumption in 2025 is 2%-2.5%, he said.

Electricity consumption in Russia has fallen 4.9% since the beginning of the year, the head of the State Duma Energy Committee, Nikolai Shulginov, said in mid-January. He was referring to a figure not adjusted for temperature effects, the System Operator said.

Russia's energy consumption rose 3.1% to 1.192 trillion kWh in 2024.