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Friday, 26.04.2024, 06:41
October sales of Eesti Gaas drop 18% on year due to warm weather
Eesti Gaas in
October of this year sold 31.2 mln cubic meters of gas in Estonia, while the
amount of gas sold in the same month the year before was 38.1 mln cubic
meters.
In the first ten months of the year, the gas seller owned by
investment company Infortar belonging
to Ain Hanschmidt, Enn Pant and
Kalev Jarvelill sold 321.8 mln cubic
meters of gas in Estonia. The number decreased 6.4%, having stood at 343.7 mln
cubic meters in the same period the year before.
The sales of compressed natural gas (CNG) at filling
stations of Eesti Gaas totaled 700,000 cubic meters in October
2018. Eesti Gaas has sold altogether 6.2 mln cubic meters of
compressed gas in the first ten months of the year, while the amount sold in
the same period the year before was 5.2 mln cubic meters.
Sales of electric energy amounted to 7.6 gigawatt-hours
(GWh) in October and to 64.5 GWh in the ten months, compared with
respectively 4.6 GWh and 39.5 GWh last year.
According to the national weather service, the average air
temperature in October this year was 7.8 degrees Celsius, which
is 1.6 degrees Celsius warmer than the year before.