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No import of Iran’s power to Turkey for 3rd straight month

Business Materials 25 October 2016 16:55 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 25

By Emil Ilgar – Trend:

Turkey stopped the electricity import from Iran in June-August 2016, while its cumulative power import from its eastern neighbour stood at 545 million kilowatt hours (kWh) in1H16.

Turkey’s power import from Iran plunged in March (beginning of Iran’s fiscal year).

In total, Turkey imported 3.7 billion kWh of electricity in eight months of 2016, according to monthly statistics of Turkey Energy Market Regulatory.

Turkey's electricity imports (MWh):

Months

From Iran

Total imports

Total exports

January

215,944

704,664

188,821

February

213,122

589,499

114,427

March

110,753

459,811

60,551

April

1,088

393,646

107,762

May

2,227

394,909

58,840

June

0

504,611

68,894

July

0

647,181

165,466

August

0

665,449

121,086

Total

545,150

4,359,770

885,847

The reports didn't elaborate on the country's power import statistics in the same period of the last year, but in total, Turkey imported 7.411 billion kWh in 2015, about 542 million kWh less than 2014.

The country also exported 2.696 billion kWh of electricity in 2015.

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