“The record of power consumption in the Unified Energy System of Russia has been broken.
The indicator reached 159.48 GW, which is 2 GW higher than the previous record in 2012 - 157.43 GW.
It is noteworthy that this happened on December 22, the Day of the Power Engineer, ”TASS quotes the message of the Ministry of Energy of Russia.
The record was recorded against the backdrop of a sharp cold snap.
Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian nuclear power plants broke the daily record for electricity production.