Demand for electricity dropped by 2.3 per cent last year after having risen by 4.3 per cent in the previous year, according to official statistics.

The National Statistics Office said that the highest generated power consumption was registered in 2007 (2,296,296 megawatt hours), followed by 2,275,892 megawatt hours in 2008.

Approximately 20 per cent of all electricity generated occurs in July and August. with a monthly average of 407 and 405 megawatts respectively.

The highest annual average demands were registered in 2005 and 2007, with 363 megawatts in both years.

On the production of renewable energy, the NSO said that while in 2010, 1,731 megawatt hours was generated, in 2013 a total of 36,692 megawatt hours was generated.

Most of this renewable energy (83.7 per cent) was produced from photovoltaic cells, while 16.3 per cent was obtained from other sources

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