Turkey’s total installed electricity generation capacity rose by 11% on the year
to 66,632 megawatts (MW) in the first half of 2014, the country’s energy
ministry said.
Power plants with combined capacity of 2,625 MW and total
investment cost of 7.0 billion Turkish lira ($3.3 billion/2.4 billion euro) were
put in operation in the first half of the year. The number of operational power
plants in Turkey rose by 20.4% year-on-year to 1,002 in the reviewed period,
energy minister Taner Yildiz said in a statement on Friday.
The country’s
electricity production increased by 4.3% on the year, while consumption went up
by 3.8%, said the minister.
Turkey’s power output in the first half rose
to 121,350 GWh from 116,420 GWh in the same period of 2013. In June alone,
electricity production increased to 20,187 GWh from 19,699 GWh a year ago, data
published by the country’s TEIAS showed.
Natural gas and liquefied
natural gas-fired power plants accounted for 46.6% of the country’s total power
output in June, followed by coal-fored power plants with a share of 29.5%,
hydropower plants with 17.4% share, wind farms with 3.0%, renewable waste and
geothermal plants with 1.3% and other power generation sources 3.3%, according
to TEIAS data.