The recovery growth continued from the second half of 2009, despite the interruption in the business revival in the third quarter of 2010, lead to the 4% GDP increase for the whole 2010. The industrial production indicator increased by 8.2%, the total processing grew by 11.8%, while the production and distribution of electricity, gas and water raised by 4.1% versus the similar indicator of the previous year.

Capacity of power plants of UPS of Russia 2010:
Total installed capacity: 214,868.6MW;
Growth in installed capacity: 3,229.95MW;
Commissioning of new capacities (taking into account captive power plants): 2,886.2MW;
Decommissioning of generating equipment: 1,006.7MW.

The installed capacity of the North-West IPS made 21,572.1MW as of January 1, 2011, having increased by 2.7% in comparison with the similar indicator of 2009. A share of North-West IPS in the total volume of the installed capacity of UPS of Russia is 10 per cent.

    Electricity generation by power plants of wholesale and territorial generating companies in 2010 versus 2009, bn kWh: OGK     power plants: 337.7 (4.5% growth); TGC power plants: 251.5 (0.6% growth).

The total electricity generation of North-West IPS is 101,360mn kWh in 2010, which makes 10.1% of the overall generation of UPS of Russia. The North-West IPS electricity generation growth in 2010, as compared to 2009, was registered at the level of 3.9%, in particular: the CHPP and NPP generation increased by 7.2% and 5.1% respectively; the HPP generation decreased by 7.4%, and the generation by captive power plants increased by 1.1%.



        


The actual electricity consumption for UPS of Russia made 988,960.6mn kWh in 2010, which is 4.5% higher than the fact in 2009 and 0.2% higher than the fact in 2008 (without accounting of the consumption of an extra day of the 2008 leap year).

The annual maximum demand of the consumers of UPS of Russia was registered at 18:00 h (Moscow time) on January 26, 2010 at the electrical frequency of 50.010 Hz and equaled to 149,157MW at the mean daily outside air temperature of minus 21.3°С (7°С below the climatic normal and 1.3°С higher than in 2009). The 2010 maximum value is 0.6% below the absolute annual maximum of 2009. The peak load of the power plants of UPS of Russia made 151,271MW at the hour of the consumer maximum demand passage.



The electricity consumption growth will continue in 2011 owing to the implementation of individual projects. New large connections to the energy system, which would considerably impact on the demand, are not expected in region.