Turkey's daily electricity consumption decreased by 5.79% to 779,796 megawatt-hours on Saturday, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Sunday.
Hourly power consumption peaked at local time 19.00 with 36,516 megawatt-hours, data from TEIAS showed.
The country's electricity usage dropped to its lowest daily point of 27,756 megawatt-hours at local time 05.00.
Electricity production totaled 771,478 megawatt-hours on Saturday, marking a 6.01% decrease compared to the previous day.
The majority of the output came from imported coal totaling 208,052 megawatt-hours. Natural gas plants and lignite plants followed with 183,961 megawatt-hours and 134,964 megawatt-hours, respectively.
On Saturday, Turkey's electricity exports amounted to 4,572 megawatt-hours, while imports reached 12,890 megawatt-hours.
By Murat Temizer
Anadolu Agency
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