Gas consumption in Czechia fell 14.4% in Q1, lowest since 2001

Czechs continued to make record savings on gas, cutting consumption by 14.4 percent year on year in the first quarter of this year. They consumed a total of 2.52 million cubic meters of gas, the lowest figure since 2001, when statistics began. The Czech News Agency (ČTK) was informed of this today in a press release from the Czech Energy Regulatory Office (ERO). At the end of March, storage facilities held 1.696 million cubic meters, almost four times the volume held in the same period last year.

The decline in consumption was evident in every calendar month of the first quarter. The largest drop was recorded by the office in January, when gas use fell by 21.4 percent compared with last year. According to ERO statistics, consumption also fell in every region of the country during the quarter, most sharply in the Pardubice Region, by 16.6 percent, and least in the Karlovy Vary Region, by 12.2 percent. All customer groups saved gas, especially households, which cut consumption by 15.9 percent over the quarter.