Turkey's
electricity consumption grew by 1.72 percent in December compared to the same
month last year, according to Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry on
Thursday.
The
country's power consumption increased to 25.59 billion kilowatt-hours in
December compared to the same month of 2016.
Turkey
produced 25.6 gigawatt-hours of electricity in December 2017 - a production
increase of 4.40 percent compared to the same month of 2016.
Turkey
produced 35.01 percent of December's electricity from natural gas power plants
while 19.21 percent came from hydro plants and 18.17 percent from imported
coal.
Local
coal plants contributed 15.54 percent to electricity generation, wind plants
constituted 8.54 percent and the remaining 3.53 percent of electricity
production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.
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Electricity imports decrease by 67 percent
Turkey's
electricity imports from neighboring countries decreased by 67.32 percent
reaching 232.68 million kilowatt-hours as opposed to 711.99 million
kilowatt-hours in December last year.
Furthermore,
Turkey's electricity exports to neighboring countries increased by 126 percent
with 307.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. Electricity exports in
December last year amounted to 136.4 million kilowatt-hours.
(Anadolu
Agency
)