The power stations last year produced 2,167,640 Mwh of electricity of which 1,791,830 Mwh were actually billed.

Information given in parliament by Finance Minister Tonio Fenech shows that 2,045,935 Mwh of electricity were 'sent out' and 121,705 were used in the power stations themselves.

Replying to another question in Parliament, the minister said that the electricity generated last year was lower than the last seven years. A peak of 2312071 Mwh were generated in 2008. Last year generation reached 2167640. In 2003 total generation was of 2235541 Mwh.

Consumption of gasoil last year reached 77488mt, which was down from 82162 in 2008 but higher than all the other years since 2003. Consumption of heavy fuel oil, however, declined to 523486mt last year, the lowest at least since 2003.

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