Türkiye’s daily power consumption up 0.6% on Dec

Daily electricity consumption in Türkiye increased 0.6% on Wednesday compared to the previous day, totaling 925,316 megawatt-hours, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Thursday.

Hourly power consumption peaked at 44,778 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 30,547 megawatt-hours at 5 a.m. local time (0200 GMT).

Electricity production amounted to 910,128 megawatt-hours on Wednesday, marking an increase of 0.2% compared to Tuesday.

Electricity production from natural gas plants constituted 28.7% of total generation, while imported coal and lignite plants contributed 24.4% and 13.9%, respectively.

On Wednesday, the country’s electricity exports amounted to 9,992 megawatt-hours and imports totaled 25,180 megawatt-hours.

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