Turkey's daily electricity consumption decreased by 4.26% to 723,639 megawatt-hours on Saturday, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Sunday.

Hourly power consumption peaked at 19.00 local time with 34,592 megawatt-hours, data from TEIAS showed.

The country's electricity usage dropped to its lowest daily point of 26,413 megawatt-hours at 05.00 local time.

Electricity production totaled 725,081 megawatt-hours on Saturday, marking a 4.63% decrease compared to the previous day.

The majority of the output came from coal imports totaling 188,650 megawatt-hours. Lignite and natural gas followed with 133,404 megawatt-hours and 131,191 megawatt-hours, respectively.

On Saturday, Turkey's electricity exports amounted to 6,956 megawatt-hours, while imports reached 5,514 megawatt-hours.

By Firdevs Yuksel

Anadolu Agency

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