Turkey's electricity consumption rises 1.49% in May

By Murat Temizer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's electricity consumption grew by 1.49 percent in May compared to the same month last year, according to Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry on Tuesday.

The country's power consumption increased to 23.19 billion kilowatt-hours in May compared to the same month of 2017.

Turkey produced 23.04 gigawatt-hours of electricity in May 2018 - a production increase of 0.22 percent compared to the same month of 2017.

Turkey produced 24.83 percent of May's electricity from natural gas power plants while 28.12 percent came from hydro plants and 19.41 percent from imported coal. Local coal plants contributed 18.33 percent to electricity generation, wind plants constituted 5.25 percent and the remaining 4.06 percent of electricity production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.

- Electricity imports increase by 25 percent

Turkey's electricity imports from neighboring countries increased by 25.08 percent reaching 288.62 million kilowatt-hours compared to imports of 230.7 million kilowatt-hours in May last year.

Furthermore, Turkey's electricity exports to neighboring countries decreased by 59.42 percent with 134.09 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. Electricity exports in May last year amounted to 330.52 million kilowatt-hours.