Temperatures rose, electricity consumption broke a record
Yesterday a new daily record for electricity consumption was broken in Turkey with 1 million 27 thousand 568 megawatt hours. The use of air conditioners and agricultural irrigation, which increased in parallel with the increase in air temperature throughout the country, led to peak values in the consumption of electrical energy.
According to information collected from Turkey Electricity Transmission Inc. data, the highest electricity consumption level of the year was recorded in Turkey on a daily basis with 1,27,568 megawatt-hours yesterday. Thus, the record of 1 million 23 thousand 756 megawatt-hours of July 6 in electricity consumption was surpassed.
RECORD CONSUMPTION
Per hour, the lowest electricity consumption was recorded yesterday at 07:00 with 32,978 megawatt hours. The highest electricity consumption was made at 3:00 p.m. with 49,261 megawatt hours.
1 million 17 thousand 503 megawatt hours of electricity were produced daily in Turkey yesterday.
23.2 percent of that production was covered by imported coal, 22 percent by natural gas, and 15 percent by hydroelectric plants with dams, and the rest by other sources.
Instead, yesterday it exported 6,698 megawatt-hours of electrical energy and imported 16,792 megawatt-hours of electrical energy. (AA)