Turkey's electricity consumption grew by 6.1 percent in February compared to the same month last year, according to Turkey's Electricity Transmission Company (TEIAS) on Thursday.
The country's power consumption increased to 22.45 gigawatt-hours in February compared to 21.15 gigawatt-hours in the same month of 2016.
Additionally, Turkey produced 22.48 gigawatt-hours of electricity in February 2017. Electricity production increased by 8.7 percent compared to the same month of 2016 when Turkey generated 20.67 gigawatt-hours of electricity.
Turkey produced 37 percent of February's electricity from natural gas power plants while 18.9 percent came from hydro plants and 18 percent from imported coal plants. Local coal plants contributed 15 percent to electricity generation, wind plants constituted 6.9 percent and the remaining 4.1 percent of the electricity production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.
- Electricity exports grow by 85.7 percent
Turkey's electricity exports to neighboring countries increased by 85.7 percent reaching 212.5 million kilowatt-hours as opposed to 114.4 million kilowatt-hours in February last year.
Furthermore, Turkey's electricity imports from neighboring countries decreased by 69.5 percent with 179.3 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. Electricity imports in February last year amounted to 589.5 million kilowatt-hours
Turkey's electricity consumption was 25.98 gigawatt-hours in January 2017.
The country's total installed electricity capacity reached 78.9 gigawatts by the end of February 2017.
(Anadolu Agency)
