Daily electricity consumption in Türkiye decreased by 9.6% on Sunday compared to the previous day, totaling 806,391 megawatt-hours, according to official figures from the Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Monday.
Hourly power consumption peaked at 39,110 megawatt-hours at 7 p.m. local time (1600 GMT), data from TEIAS showed.
The country’s electricity usage dropped to the lowest level of 28,866 megawatt-hours at 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT).
Electricity production amounted to 826,405 megawatt-hours on Sunday marking a decrease of 9.3% compared to Saturday.
Electricity production from imported coal plants constituted 28.5% of total generation, while natural gas plants and wind power plants contributed 19.7% and 14.4%, respectively.
On Sunday, the country’s electricity exports amounted to 20,012 megawatt-hours and imports totaled 6 megawatt-hours.
