How does the domestic electricity system work?
Hungary’s energy system – as in other European countries – consists of several market sections. Electric energy is produced in different power plants. In Hungary the largest power producer is the Paks Nuclear Power Plant (PNPP); with its four nuclear units it produces some 40% of the domestic electric energy. In addition, in the system there are coal-fired power plants, gas-fired power plants (these are suited for oil-firing too), biomass power plants and in fewer numbers water and wind power plants, too. The produced power and the imported supplementary power is bought by the distributor, Hungarian Power Companies Ltd. (MVM Zrt.). The procedure is supervised by Mavir, the system operator. It organizes the distribution of the power, which will be delivered to consumers later by local power suppliers. Industrial consumers don’t buy power from local suppliers, they buy it on the competitive market, mostly from the power distribution companies, who usually buy it from the power distributo
