Turkey's daily electricity consumption fell by 0.12% on Wednesday compared to the previous day, totaling 868,479 megawatt-hours, according to official figures of the Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Thursday.
Hourly power consumption peaked at 41,484 megawatt-hours at 12.00 local time (0900 GMT), data from TEIAS showed. The country's electricity usage dropped to its lowest level of 29,333 megawatt-hours at 05.00 local time (0200 GMT).
Electricity production amounted to 870,314 megawatt-hours on Tuesday, marking a 0.25% drop from Tuesday.
Turkey's electricity production from natural gas plants constituted 45.5% of total electricity consumption and lignite plants contributed 13.3% while imported coal plants comprised 10.7%.
On Wednesday, Turkey's electricity exports amounted to 15,816 megawatt-hours and imports totaled 14,058 megawatt-hours.
By Zeynep Beyza Kilic
Anadolu Agency
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