Turkey's electricity consumption grew 5.7 percent in January while the installed capacity reached more than 78 gigawatts, according to data from country's electricity transmission company (TEIAS) on Wednesday.
TEIAS revealed in its statistics of electricity consumption and capacity increase for January that Turkey consumed 25.98 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity in January.
Turkey's installed electricity capacity reached over 78.49 gigawatts (GW) from 73.14 GW with the addition of 5.35 GW last year.
Turkey's electricity consumption was around 23.72 billion kilowatt-hours in 2016.
Natural gas played a significant role in Turkey's electricity generation with a 32.3 percent share.
By the end of January 2016, Turkey provided 22.5 percent of its capacity from hydro resources, 16.02 percent from indigenous coal and lignite, 19.3 percent from imported coal, 6.5 percent from wind, 1.5 percent from multi-fuel power plants and 21.8 percent from geothermal energy.
- Imported electricity falls
According to the data, the amount of imported electricity fell 51 percent compared to the previous year's data.
Turkey imported 333.83 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in January 2016 while it was around 704.66 million kilowatt-hours in the same period in 2015.
The country realized 233.68 kilowatt-hours of electricity exports last year as opposed to 188.82 kilowatt-hours the previous year.
In addition, daily electricity production hit a maximum on Jan. 26 with 860,429 million kilowatt-hours. The lowest electricity generation was on Jan.1 with 838,404 kilowatt-hours.
Reporting By Nuran Erkul
Writing By Gulsen Cagatay
Anadolu Agency
gulsen.cagatay@aa.com.tr
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