Turkey: Electricity consumption down 2.16 pct in Jan.

By Murat Temizer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's electricity consumption decreased by 2.16 percent in January compared to the same month of 2018, according to Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry on Tuesday.

The country's power consumption reached 25.36 billion kilowatt-hours in January.

Turkey produced 25.47 gigawatt-hours of electricity in January 2019 - a production decrease of 2.07 percent compared to the same month of 2018.

Turkey produced 21.2 percent of January's electricity from natural gas power plants while 30 percent came from hydro plants and 20.09 percent from imported coal.

Local coal plants contributed 15.52 percent to electricity generation, wind plants constituted 8.59 percent and the remaining 4.6 percent of electricity production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.

Turkey's electricity imports from neighboring countries decreased by 13.64 percent and reached 142.59 million kilowatt-hours compared to 165.12 million kilowatt-hours in January 2018.

In addition, the country's electricity exports to neighboring countries declined by 0.92 percent to 251.95 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from 254.29 million kilowatt-hours in January 2018.

Turkey's total installed power capacity reached 88.55 gigawatts by the end of 2018, according to official figures.