Türkiye’s daily power consumption up 12.3% on Dec

Daily electricity consumption in Türkiye increased 12.3% on Monday compared to the previous day, totaling 853,158 megawatt-hours, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Tuesday.

Hourly power consumption peaked at 41,876 megawatt-hours at 12.00 p.m. local time (0900 GMT), data from TEIAS showed. The country’s electricity usage dropped to the lowest level of 27,047 megawatt-hours at 05.00 a.m. local time (0200 GMT).

Electricity production amounted to 843,218 megawatt-hours on Monday, marking an increase of 12.7% compared to Sunday.

Electricity production from imported coal plants constituted 24.6% of total generation, while natural gas and wind plants contributed 18.9% and 16.7%, respectively.

On Monday, the country’s electricity exports amounted to 9,853 megawatt-hours and imports totaled 19,731 megawatt-hours.

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