Türkiye’s daily power consumption down 6.28% on Jan. 8

by Anadolu Agency

Daily electricity consumption in Türkiye decreased 6.28% on Saturday compared to the previous day, totaling 985,348 megawatt-hours, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Sunday.

Hourly power consumption peaked at 46,635 megawatt-hours at 12 p.m. local time (0900 GMT), data from TEIAS showed. The country’s electricity usage dropped to the lowest level of 33,655 megawatt-hours at 5 a.m. local time (0200 GMT).

Electricity production amounted to 1,000,895 megawatt-hours on Saturday, marking an increase of 6.02% compared to Friday.

Electricity production from natural gas plants constituted 22.9% of total generation, while imported coal plants and wind plants contributed 22.4% and 18.7%, respectively.

On Saturday, the country’s electricity exports amounted to 15,770 megawatt-hours and imports totaled 223 megawatt-hours.

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