Türkiye’s daily power consumption up 0.9% on Aug. 17

Daily electricity consumption in Türkiye increased by 0.98% on Wednesday compared to the previous day, totaling 1.04 million megawatt-hours, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Thursday.

Hourly power consumption peaked at 50,340 megawatt-hours at 03.00 p.m. local time (1200 GMT), data from TEIAS showed. The country’s electricity usage dropped to the lowest level of 34,798 megawatt-hours at 07.00 a.m. local time (0400 GMT).

Electricity production amounted to 1.04 million megawatt-hours on Wednesday, marking an increase of 1.9% compared to Tuesday.

Electricity production from natural gas power plants constituted 34% of total generation, while imported coal plants and hydropower plants contributed 20% and 15%, respectively.

On Wednesday, the country’s electricity exports amounted to 6,330 megawatt-hours and imports totaled 15,786 megawatt-hours.

• Electricity production
• natural gas power plants