Turkey's electricity consumption grew by 3.29 percent in January 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 25.03 billion kilowatt-hours in January compared to the same month of 2017.
Turkey produced 26.02 gigawatt-hours of electricity in January 2018 - a production increase of 4.08 percent compared to the same month of 2017.
Turkey produced 34.58 percent of January's electricity from natural gas power plants while 17.38 percent came from hydro plants and 21.95 percent from imported coal.
Local coal plants contributed 15.42 percent to electricity generation, wind plants constituted 6.93 percent and the remaining 3.74 percent of electricity production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.
- Electricity imports decrease by 67 percent
Turkey's electricity imports from neighboring countries decreased by 51.41 percent reaching 165.12 million kilowatt-hours as opposed to 339.83 million kilowatt-hours in January last year.
Furthermore, Turkey's electricity exports to neighboring countries increased by 8.8 percent with 254.3 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. Electricity exports in January last year amounted to 233.68 million kilowatt-hours.
By Murat Temizer
Anadolu Agency
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