Turkey's daily electricity consumption decreased by 16.5% to 758,47 megawatt-hours on Monday, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Tuesday.
Hourly power consumption peaked at local time 19.00 with 37,451 megawatt-hours, data from TEIAS showed.
The country's electricity usage dropped to its lowest daily point of 24,918 megawatt-hours at local time 05.00.
Electricity production totaled 756,119 megawatt-hours on Monday, marking a 3.8% increase compared to the previous day.
The majority of the output came from natural gas totaling 197,947 megawatt-hours. Import coal and lignite plants followed with 176,408 megawatt-hours and 143,538 megawatt-hours, respectively.
On Sunday, Turkey's electricity exports amounted to 8,558 megawatt-hours, while imports reached 6,630 megawatt-hours.
By Muhsin Baris Tiryakioglu
Anadolu Agency
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