Baku, Azerbaijan, July 11
By Maksim Tsurkov – Trend:
Power plants of the Azerenergy JSC, Azerbaijan's main electricity producer, generated 10.8 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in January-June 2016 as compared to 11.5 billion kilowatt hours generated in the same period of 2015, Azerenergy told Trend July 11.
Azerenergy's power plants produced about 1.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in June 2016 compared to 1.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in June 2015.
Azerenergy produced more than 22.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2015 as compared to about 22.7 billion kilowatt hours generated in 2014.
Meanwhile, generation capacity of Azerbaijan's power system grew by over third over the past six years.
At present, the generation capacity of Azerbaijan's power system is 7,200 megawatts. As a result, it is possible to generate around 24 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually. This enables Azerbaijan to export 2.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually.
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