KYIV, Jan 11 - Power consumption in Ukraine in 2018, taking into account in-process consumption in power grids, increased by 2.3% (by 3.489 billion kWh) compared to 2017, to 153.214 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry reported.

Without taking into account in-process consumption, electricity consumption for the year increased by 2.6% (by 3.076 billion kWh), to 122.003 billion kWh.