Ukrainian businesses reduced energy consumption by 41.5% compared with 2021 last year

The full-scale war continues to exert unprecedented pressure on Ukraine’s industrial sector and business activity. Last year, enterprises consumed 41.5 per cent less electricity than before the war, according to the DiXi Group.

The structure of overall demand in the country has also changed significantly: whilst in 2021 industry and business accounted for two-thirds of total consumption (69.5%), by the end of last year this figure had fallen to 63.7%.

Trends in recent years point to stagnation in industrial demand. Following a sharp drop in energy consumption in the first months of the invasion (from 125.7 billion kWh in 2021 to 86.1 billion kWh in 2022), the market has stabilised at between 80 and 83 billion kWh per year. However, there is no sign of recovery — the 2025 figure was 3.6 per cent lower than the previous year’s results.

“Factors that may have influenced demand include: the destruction of energy and industrial infrastructure, the loss of control over parts of the territory, internal displacement and emigration, a decline in business activity, as well as forced power cuts,” notes Oksana Zueva, senior open data expert at DiXi Group.

Current figures show that without a large-scale restoration of major industrial facilities and stabilisation of the power system, it remains difficult for Ukrainian industry to return to pre-war production levels.

According to the NEURC, by the end of 2025, total electricity consumption in Ukraine had fallen by 36.2% compared with pre-war 2021, standing at 80.2 billion kWh.

In quantitative terms, the breakdown of consumption in 2025 was as follows:

• non-domestic consumers (industry and business): 51.1 billion kWh;
• domestic consumers (the population): 29.1 billion kWh.

As reported by GMK Center, due to constant Russian shelling of energy and gas production infrastructure in 2025, as well as the need for imports, electricity and gas prices for Ukrainian industrial consumers rose significantly. Last year, Ukrainian energy prices were higher than those for European consumers.