Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan.19
By Emil Ismayilov - Trend:
In 2014, Azerbaijan produced 23.11 billion kw/hours of electricity, which is 6.7 percent more than in 2013, said the report of the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee on the results of 2014.
In 2014 Azerbaijan produced 21.93 billion kw/hours of commodity electricity, which is 6.3 percent more than in 2013.
The share of thermal power plants (TPP) accounted for about 20.68 billion kw/hours of the total volume of commodity electricity produced in 2014, which is 7.4 percent more than the same period of last year.
Hydroelectric power plants (HPP) in Azerbaijan in 2014 produced 1.23 billion kw/hours of commodity electricity that is less by 10 percent than the same period of 2013.
Also in 2014, some 7.9 million kw/hours of electricity were produced by the capacities for wind power generation.
Power generation system of Azerbaijan over the past five years has increased by 30 percent. At the moment, the figure is 7105 megawatts, which makes it possible to produce about 24 billion kw/hours of electricity, which in its turn allows the country to annually export 2.1 billion kw/hours of electricity.
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