In July metal companies increased natural gas consumption by 4% YoY, to 130 million cubic meters.
Average daily gas consumption totaled 4.2 million cubic meters.
In 2016 daily average daily consumption totaled 4.8 million cubic meters, down from 5.5 million cubic meters in 2015.
In January-July Ukrainian metal companies consumed 1 billion cubic meters of gas, up by 2% YoY.
Electricity consumption dropped by 13% YoY, to 6.6 billion kW-h. (Ukrainian metal)