Russia’s electricity consumption returns to pre-crisis level – Putin | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Electric power consumption in Russia has returned to the level registered before the global economic and financial crisis hit the country in 2008, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
‘In January, electric power consumption returned to the pre-crisis level and equaled 103 billion kilowatt hours,’ Putin said at a meeting in East Siberia to discuss investment in the electric power sector.
Putin said electric power consumption had returned to its pre-crisis level primarily due to the unusually cold winter, but that it was also the result of rebounding industrial production, which had stimulated demand for electricity.”