Turkiye’s licensed electricity production increased by 8.8% in January compared to the same month last year, reaching 28 million 549 thousand 38 megawatt hours. The largest share in production was hydroelectric power plants with 29.2%.
According to the “Electricity Market Sector Report” of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority for January, 29.2% of licensed electricity production was provided by hydroelectricity, 21.8% by imported coal, 14% by wind, 13.2% by natural gas and 12.3% by lignite power plants.
These sources were followed by geothermal, biomass, hard coal, solar, asphaltite and fuel oil, respectively.
Turkiye’s licensed electricity production increased by 8.8% in January compared to the same month last year, reaching 28 million 549 thousand 38 megawatt hours.
The amount of billed electricity consumption increased by 7% in the same period and reached 22 million 755 thousand 71 megawatt hours.
40.8% of the consumption was made by industry, 29.1% by residences, 26.3% by the public and private services sector and other subscribers. The share of lighting was recorded as 2.5%, and the share of agricultural activities was recorded as 1.3%.
Number of consumers and installed capacity increased
The number of electricity consumers increased by 2.14% in January compared to the same month last year, reaching 49 million 740 thousand 80.
During this period, there was an increase of 14.4% in the number of residential consumers, 9.3% in the number of public and private services sector and other consumers, 4% in the number of industrial consumers and 1.6% in the number of lighting consumers. There was a 43.7% decrease in the number of agricultural activity consumers.
Turkiye’s licensed electricity installed power increased by 1.25% in this period and reached 96 thousand 405 megawatts.
Natural gas constituted 26.2% of the installed capacity, and dam hydroelectricity constituted 24.5%, 12.2% was made up of wind energy, 10.8% was imported coal and 10.6% was lignite power plants, and the remaining part was made up of facilities producing electricity from other energy sources.
Source: Trthaber / Prepared by Irem Yildiz