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Electricity production decreased by 8.3% year-on-year in July

Turkiye’s licensed electricity production decreased by 8.3% in July compared to the same month of the previous year and became 27 million 177 thousand 547 megawatt hours.

According to the “Electricity Market Sector Report” of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority for July, 21.2% of licensed electricity generation was provided by natural gas power plants, 20.8% by hydroelectric power plants, 20.5% by imported coal power plants, 15.5% by wind power plants and 13.1% by lignite power plants.

These sources were followed by geothermal, biomass, solar, hard coal, asphaltite and fuel-oil, respectively.

Thus, licensed electricity production decreased by 8.3% in July compared to the same month of the previous year and became 27 million 177 thousand 547 megawatt-hours.

The amount of billed electricity consumption increased by approximately 1% in the same period and was recorded as 21 million 753 thousand 958 megawatt-hours.

Industry made up 36.9% of consumption, public and private services sector and other subscribers 26.8%, and residential subscribers 23%. The share of agricultural activities was calculated as 11.5% and the share of lighting was calculated as 1.7%.

Number of subscribers and installed capacity increased

The number of electricity subscribers increased by 2.4% in July compared to the same month of the previous year and reached 47 million 895 thousand 997.

In this period, the number of industrial consumers increased by 4.5%, the number of agricultural activities consumers increased by 3.4%, the number of residential consumers increased by 3%, while the number of lighting consumers decreased by 6.2% and the number of public and private services sector and other consumers decreased by 0.6%.

Turkiye’s licensed electricity installed capacity increased by 3% in this period to approximately 93 thousand 743 megawatts.

Of the installed power, 26.9% consisted of natural gas cycle power plants, 24.9% from hydroelectric power plants with dams, 11.7% from wind power plants, and the remaining part from facilities that generate electricity from other energy sources.

Source: Trthaber / Translated by Irem Yildiz

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