The Department of Studies and Financial Forecasts (DEPF), under the Ministry of Economy and Finance, indicated that the production of electrical energy at the national level increased by 1.5% at the end of October 2022, against an increase of 6.2% a year earlier.
In its note on the economy for November, the DEPF specifies that this development is explained by the strengthening of ONEE’s production (+21.7%, after +31.6% and +10.1%) and that of renewable energies relating to Law 13-09 (+5.4%), mitigated by the decline in private production of 4.5% (after +5.5% a year earlier).
With regard to net energy called, the latter increased by 5.4% at the end of the first ten months of 2022, after a rise of 5.7% a year earlier.
Under these conditions, the volume of imported energy increased by 171.1% at the end of October 2022, after an 8.2% drop a year earlier, notes the DEPF, stressing that the exported volume has, for its part, fell by 37.8% (after +33.8% at the end of October 2021).
As for the consumption of electrical energy, its growth consolidated at 5.3% at the end of October 2022, after 4.9% at the end of the first half of 2022 and 5.7% at the end of October 2021.
By segment, this increase is the result of the 7.4% increase in “very high, high and medium voltage, excluding distributors” energy sales, covering an increase in medium voltage sales of 6.4% and those of “very high and high voltage”, used mainly by the manufacturing sector, by 10.9%, specifies the note, adding that this development also benefited from the increase in sales intended for distributors by 4.3% and households by 4.2%.
Compared to the same pre-crisis period (end of October 2019), the production of electrical energy increased by 3% and its consumption by 8.2%, after a respective increase of 3% and 7.1% at the end of June 2022, and 1.4% and 2.8% at the end of the first ten months of 2021.