Turkey's electricity consumption grew by 2.36 percent in March compared to the same month last year, according to Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry on Tuesday.
The country's power consumption increased to 24.14 billion kilowatt-hours in March compared to the same month of 2017.
Turkey produced 24.23 gigawatt-hours of electricity in March 2018 - a production increase of 2.98 percent compared to the same month of 2017.
Turkey produced 26.42 percent of March's electricity from natural gas power plants while 25.8 percent came from hydro plants and 18.31 percent from imported coal. Local coal plants contributed 17.18 percent to electricity generation, wind plants constituted 8.40 percent and the remaining 3.89 percent of electricity production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.
- Electricity imports decrease by 57.54 percent
Turkey's electricity imports from neighboring countries decreased by 57.54 percent reaching 129.64 million kilowatt-hours compared to imports of 305.35 million kilowatt-hours in March last year.
Furthermore, Turkey's electricity exports to neighboring countries decreased by 12.94 percent with 216.07 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. Electricity exports in March last year amounted to 248.21 million kilowatt-hours.
By Murat Temizer
Anadolu Agency
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