Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the gross available supply of Electricity in the first quarter of 2009 declined by 13.6% quarter-to-quarter, of which imports of Electricity decreased by 56.9%, bringing its relative importance to gross available supply to drop notably from 67.2% in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 33.5%; however, generation of Electricity in Macao surged significantly by 72.1%. Consumption of Electricity totalled 665 million kWh, down by 14.3% quarter-to-quarter but up by 1.3% year-on-year.

The selling price of all types of fuels, except Unleaded Gasoline (+5.4%), registered decrease in the first quarter of 2009; selling price of Centralized Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Bottled LPG lowered by 20.0% and 16.0% respectively quarter-to-quarter, that of Fuel Oil also fell by 9.9%.

In the first quarter of 2009, imports of Gasoline went down by 12.3% over the preceding quarter to 14.9 million litres, with the average price of imports falling by 20.6%; consumption of Gasoline dropped down slightly by 0.5% to 16.2 million litres.

Meanwhile, imports of LPG rose by 28.6% quarter-to-quarter to 11,750 tonnes, with the average price of imports decreasing by 14.3%; consumption of LPG went up by 8.0% to 11,314 tonnes.