Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 29
By Emil Ilgar – Trend:
Turkey stopped electricity import from Iran in June, while its cumulative power import from its eastern neighbor stands at 445 million kilowatt hours (kWh) in the first half of 2016.
In total, Turkey imported 3 billion kWh of electricity in 1H16, according to monthly statistics of Turkey Energy Market Regulatory.
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Turkey's electricity imports in the first half of 2016 (MWh) |
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Months |
From Iran |
Total imports |
Total exports |
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January |
215,944 |
704,664 |
188,821 |
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February |
213,122 |
589,499 |
114,427 |
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March |
110,753 |
459,811 |
60,551 |
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April |
1,088 |
393,646 |
107,762 |
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May |
2,227 |
394,909 |
58,840 |
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June |
0 |
504,611 |
68,894 |
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Total |
545,150 |
3,047,140 |
599,295 |
The reports didn't elaborate 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 electricity in 2015.