Turkey's electricity consumption grew by 1.76 percent in July compared to the same month last year, according to Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry on Thursday.
The country's power consumption increased to 28.26 billion kilowatt-hours in July compared to the same month of 2017.
Turkey produced 28.29 gigawatt-hours of electricity in July 2018 - a production increase of 1.95 percent compared to the same month of 2017.
Turkey produced 37.23 percent of July's electricity from natural gas power plants while 20.63 percent came from hydro plants and 18.73 percent from imported coal. Local coal plants contributed 15.13 percent to electricity generation, wind plants constituted 5.03 percent and the remaining 3.25 percent of electricity production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.
- Electricity exports increase by 15.11 percent
Turkey's electricity exports to neighboring countries increased by 15.11 percent with 303.88 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. Electricity exports in July last year amounted to 263.98 million kilowatt-hours.
Turkey's electricity imports from neighboring countries decreased by 5 percent reaching 272.67 million kilowatt-hours compared to imports of 287.11 million kilowatt-hours in July last year.
By Murat Temizer
Anadolu Agency
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