Turkey's daily electricity consumption decreased on Friday by 0.18% compared to the previous day to 940,244 megawatt-hours, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Saturday.

Hourly power consumption peaked at 17.00 local time with 43,413 megawatt-hours, data from TEIAS showed. The country's electricity usage dropped to its lowest level of 32,212 megawatt-hours at local time 07.00.

Electricity production totaled 939,301 megawatt-hours on Friday, marking a 0.19% decrease compared to the previous day.

The majority of the output came from natural gas plants at 234,322 megawatt-hours. Hydroelectricity and imported coal plants followed with 203,433 megawatt-hours and 192,374 megawatt-hours, respectively.

On Friday, Turkey's electricity exports amounted to 2,678 megawatt-hours, while imports reached 3,620 megawatt-hours.

By Firdevs Yuksel

Anadolu Agency

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