REUTERS
Nuclear power plants and thermal power plants were the country's major producers of electricity over the period under review.
Ukraine's power plants in January-July 2019 reduced electricity generation by 2% year-over-year (y-o-y), to 90 billion kWh.
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Over the period under review, thermal power plants (TPPs) cut power generation by 2.6% y-o-y, to 34.7 billion kWh, which accounted for 38.6% of the country's electricity generation, the State Statistics Service said.
Nuclear power plants (NPPs) generated 48.7 billion kWh, which was 4.5% up y-o-y (6% of power generation).
Hydro power plants (HPPs) reduced power generation by 39.7%, to 5.2 billion kWh (5.8%), the report said.
Electricity generation from alternative (renewable) sources of energy, such as the sun and wind, rose by 45.4% and 29.7%, respectively. Solar power plants and wind farms generated 1.4 billion kWh, which accounted for 1.6% of the country's electricity generation.
As UNIAN reported earlier, in 2018, Ukraine boosted electricity generation by 2.5% from 2017, to 159.350 billion kWh.