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Electricity generation up in Azerbaijan in 10 months 2019

Oil&Gas Materials 20 November 2019 13:12 (UTC +04:00)
Electricity generation up in Azerbaijan in 10 months 2019

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 20

By Anastasiya Savchenko – Trend:

Power plants in Azerbaijan generated 19.9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from January through October 2019, which is 4.7 percent more than in the same period of last year, Trend reports referring to the country's State Statistical Committee.

The committee's report says that 19.2 billion kilowatt hours of the total electricity generated from January to October 2019 accounted for commercial consumption, which is 5 percent more compared to the same period of 2018.

Of the total commercial electricity generated from January through October 2019, thermal power plants (TPPs) accounted for 17.6 billion kilowatt-hours, which is 6.1 percent more than in the same period of last year.

Azerbaijan’s hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) generated over 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity during the reporting period (decline of 9.6 percent).

Some 92.4 million kilowatt-hours of electricity were generated in Azerbaijan during the reporting period via wind power, which indicates an annual growth by 2.2 times, and 37.8 million kilowatt-hours of electricity were generated from solar power which shows an annual growth of 7.3 percent.

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