This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Las ventas de gas natural crecieron un 13,4 por ciento hasta septiembre
Sales of natural gas grew by 13.4 percent until September
05/11/2004
on November 5, 2004
Sales of natural gas in the Spanish market in the first nine months of the year reached the 229.000 (GWh) gigawatts hour, representing a growth of 13.4 per cent compared to the same period of the previous year.
The liberalized market-based gas sales increased until the 183.400 GWh until September, reflecting an increase of 10 points in relation to the same period of 2003, so 80.2 per cent of the total of Spain sales of gas have been made in the liberalized market.
Also, nearly 16 percent of sales of the trading in the market out of rate corresponded to the market of the household sector.
The increase in sales in the market of generation in power plants continued at a high rate and increased by 59 per cent until September. The Spanish power consumption absorbs already more than 20 per cent of the total sales of natural gas.
Gas for domestic and commercial sales amounted to 33.675 GWh, an 8 percent again, while that of natural gas for industrial use and sales reached 144.355 GWh, an increase of 5.8 per cent.
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