February warming sharply reduced electricity consumption, slowed gas storage withdrawals

While January frosts drove electricity consumption in the Czech Republic to a nine-year high, February warming brought the situation back under control. Electricity consumption fell by more than 1 TWh compared with January to 5.5 TWh, 0.2 TWh below the average for February over the past 10 years. The warming also significantly slowed withdrawals from gas stocks in both European and Czech storage facilities. This follows from statistics published on Energostat.

According to data published on the website of Czech market operator OTE, a.s., February was nearly 1.5 degrees Celsius above the long-term temperature norm. Compared with the frosty January, which drove electricity consumption in the Czech Republic to a nine-year high, this February was more than 4 degrees Celsius warmer.

The above-average warm weather led to a year-on-year decline in electricity consumption in the Czech Republic of just under 200 GWh, and a drop of more than 1 TWh compared with January 2026.