For the quarter, energy consumption across Russia amounted to 268.9 TWh, down 0.9% year-on-year, due to the extremely low temperatures seen in January-February 2006. UES said it had to increase generation by 5.8% in the first three months of 2006 compared to the same period of 2005. Conversely, January 2007 saw average temperatures as much as 8.9oC above the monthly norm.
