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Energy Statistics for the 1st Quarter 2009


Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the gross available supply of Electricity in the first quarter of 2009 declined by 13.6% quarter-to-quarter, of which imports of Electricity decreased by 56.9%, bringing its relative importance to gross available supply to drop notably from 67.2% in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 33.5%; however, generation of Electricity in Macao surged significantly by 72.1%. Consumption of Electricity totalled 665 million kWh, down by 14.3% quarter-to-quarter but up by 1.3% year-on-year. The selling price of all types of fuels, except Unleaded Gasoline (+5.4%), registered decrease in the first quarter of 2009; selling price of Centralized Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Bottled LPG lowered by 20.0% and 16.0% respectively quarter-to-quarter, that of Fuel Oil also fell by 9.9%. In the first quarter of 2009, imports of Gasoline went down by 12.3% over the preceding quarter to 14.9 million litres, with the average price of imports falling by 20.6%; consumption of Gasoline dropped down slightly by 0.5% to 16.2 million litres. Meanwhile, imports of LPG rose by 28.6% quarter-to-quarter to 11,750 tonnes, with the average price of imports decreasing by 14.3%; consumption of LPG went up by 8.0% to 11,314 tonnes.



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