OREANDA-NEWS. September 29, 2011. National energy operator of Azerbaijan, Azerenerji OJSC, has declared this August’s decline of 17% in revenues from sales of electricity in the country versus December 2010 and rise of 20% against August 2010.

For Jan-Aug 2011 the charge for power dropped by 8.5% against indicator for the entire last year, but grew by 4% versus the index for first 8 months of 2010.

The operator informs that this August power consumption was 564.6 million kWh versus 597.7 million kWh in July, 507.7 million kWh in June, 493.7 million kWh in May, 555.6 million in April, 519.7 million kWh in March and 581 million kWh in December 2010. At that, charge for consumed electricity made up 100% against 120.4% of its value in December 2010.

Over Jan-Aug 2011 overall power consumption amounted to 4.497 bn kWh and charge of its cost made up 85.5% against consumption of 6.316 bn kWh and payment at the level of 94% in 2010.