Turkey's daily electricity consumption decreased by 4.19% on Saturday compared to the previous day, totaling 948,451 megawatt-hours, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Sunday.
Hourly power consumption peaked at 45,254 megawatt-hours at 12.00 local time (0900 GMT), data from TEIAS showed. The country's electricity usage dropped to the lowest level of 32,504 megawatt-hours at 05.00 local time (0200 GMT).
Electricity production amounted to 944,857 megawatt-hours on Friday, marking a 4.39% decrease compared to Thursday.
Turkey's electricity production from natural gas plants constituted 31.6% of total electricity consumption, imported coal plants contributed 18.7% while wind plants comprised 13.2%.
On Friday, Turkey's electricity exports amounted to 14,066 megawatt-hours and imports totaled 17,676 megawatt-hours.
By Zeynep Beyza Kilic
Anadolu Agency
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