Türkiye’s licensed electricity production decreased by 4.91 percent in May compared to the same month of the previous year, reaching 23 million 939 thousand 965 megawatt hours.
According to the “Electricity Market Sector Report” of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) for May, 48.89 percent of the licensed electricity production was made from hydraulic, 12.48 percent from natural gas, 11.88 percent from lignite, 9.86 percent from wind, 4.54 percent from imported coal and 4.12 percent from geothermal power plants. These sources were followed by biomass, solar, hard coal, asphaltite and fuel oil, respectively.
Türkiye’s licensed electricity production decreased by 4.91 percent in May compared to the same month last year, reaching 23 million 939 thousand 965 megawatt hours.
The amount of electricity consumption billed decreased by 7.77 percent in the same period, reaching 20 million 909 thousand 586 megawatt hours.
42 percent of the consumption was made by industry, 26.94 percent by residences and 26.79 percent by the public and private services sector and other subscribers. The share of lighting in consumption was recorded as 1.87 percent, and the share of agricultural activities was recorded as 2.41 percent.
NUMBER OF CONSUMERS AND INSTALLED CAPACITY INCREASED
The number of electricity consumers increased by 2.51 percent in May compared to the same month last year, reaching 52 million 408 thousand 49.
During this period, there was an increase of 0.30 percent in the number of industrial consumers, 2.53 percent in the number of residential consumers, 2.45 percent in the number of lighting consumers, 2.56 percent in the number of public and private services sector and other consumers, and 1.35 percent in the number of agricultural activity consumers.
Türkiye’s licensed electricity installed power increased by 3 percent in this period, reaching 100 thousand 647 megawatts.
Approximately 24.44 percent of the installed capacity was made up of natural gas, 23.71 percent of dam hydraulics, 14.79 percent of wind, 10.39 percent of imported coal and 10.16 percent of lignite power plants, and the remaining part was made up of facilities producing electricity from other energy sources.
