Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan.23
By Emil Ilgar – Trend:
Turkey stopped importing electricity from Iran in June-November 2016, while its cumulative power import from its eastern neighbour stood at 545 million kilowatt hours (kWh) within five months of year.
Turkey’s power import from Iran plunged in March (beginning of Iran’s fiscal year).
Turkey shared about 22 percent of Iran’s total electricity export during the last Iranian fiscal year (ended on March 20), according to Iran’s Energy Ministry.
Iran exported 2,300 million kWh of electricity to Turkey during the last fiscal year.
In total, Turkey imported 3.7 billion kWh of electricity in five months of 2016, according to monthly statistics of Turkey Energy Market Regulatory.
Turkey's electricity imports from Iran:
|
Months |
MWh |
|
January |
215,944 |
|
February |
213,122 |
|
March |
110,753 |
|
April |
1,088 |
|
May |
2,227 |
|
June-November |
0 |
|
Total |
545,150 |