Daily electricity consumption in Turkiye decreased by 5.76% on Saturday compared to the previous day, totaling 888,162 megawatt-hours, according to official figures of Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS) on Sunday.
Hourly power consumption peaked at 42,227 megawatt-hours at 12.00 local time (0900 GMT), data from TEIAS showed. The country's electricity usage dropped to the lowest level of 31,150 megawatt-hours at 05.00 local time (0200 GMT).
Electricity production amounted to 893,424 megawatt-hours on Saturday, marking an drop of 5.15% compared to Friday.
Electricity production from natural gas plants constituted 25.7% of total electricity consumption, imported coal plants contributed 20.7% and lignite plants comprised 15.4%.
On Saturday, the country's electricity exports amounted to 16,289 megawatt-hours and imports totaled 11,027 megawatt-hours.
By Zeynep Beyza Kilic
Anadolu Agency
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