Turkey's electricity consumption grew by 3.14 percent in June compared to the same month last year, according to Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry on Monday. The country's power consumption increased to 23.05 billion kilowatt-hours in June compared to the same month of 2017.
Turkey produced 23.06 gigawatt-hours of electricity in June 2018 - a production increase of 3.17 percent compared to the same month of 2017. Turkey produced 26.83 percent of June's electricity from natural gas power plants while 24.53 percent came from hydro plants and 21.52 percent from imported coal. Local coal plants contributed 17.72 percent to electricity generation, wind plants constituted 5.41 percent and the remaining 3.99 percent of electricity production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.
- Electricity exports increase by 14.81 percent
Turkey's electricity imports from neighboring countries increased by 14.24 percent reaching 228.30 million kilowatt-hours compared to imports of 199.83 million kilowatt-hours in June last year. Furthermore, Turkey's electricity exports to neighboring countries increased by 14.81 percent with 290.23 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. Electricity exports in June last year amounted to 252.79 million kilowatt-hours.
