Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct.17
By Emil Ismayilov - Trend:
Azerbaijan produced 16.97 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in Jan.-Sept. 2014, which is 6.8 percent more than in the same period of 2013, the country's State Statistical Committee said in its report for the first nine months of 2014.
Marketable electricity accounted for 16.09 billion kilowatt hours of the total volume of electricity produced in Jan.-Sept., which is 6.3 percent more than in the same period of 2013.
The report said that thermal power plants accounted for 15.05 billion kilowatt hours of the total volume of marketable electricity generated in the country in Jan.-Sept. 2014, which is 7.4 percent more than in the same period of 2013.
This is while hydro power plants generated 1.04 billion kilowatt hours of marketable electricity during the reporting period, which is 7.8 percent less than in the same period of 2013.
Moreover, the country's wind power generation facilities produced 5.1 million kilowatt hours of electricity in Jan.-Sept. 2014.
Nearly 20.63 billion kilowatt hours of marketable electricity was generated in Azerbaijan in 2013, which is 0.6 percent more than in 2012. Some 19.26 billion kilowatt hours of the total volume of electricity generated in 2013, fell to thermal power plants, which is 2.7 percent more than in the same period of 2012. Hydro power plants produced nearly 1.37 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2013, which is 21.7 percent less than in 2012.
The generation capacity of Azerbaijan's power supply system has increased by 30 percent in the last five years. Currently, its capacity is 7,105 megawatt and this allows the generation of around 24 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and subsequently, export of about 2.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity.
