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Electricity needs of all households in Türkiye are met with the electricity generated only from wind and solar power plants, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has said.

Electricity consumption across Türkiye continued to increase in July when scorching temperatures gripped the nation.

Consumption rose by 9 percent last month, data from the state-owned transmission company TEİAŞ showed.

July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Some 7,500 megawatts of renewable capacity will be allocated for industrial consumption this year, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has announced.

Authorities are at the final stage in concluding technical work on new capacity allocation, the minister told reporters.

The fire reportedly started from a high voltage station of the Independent Power Transmission Operator

Turkey aims to increase its solar power panel production capacity to 9,110 megawatts by 2023 and become one of the top three producers in the world in this field, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez has said.

Although Turkey's installed hydropower capacity is continuing its growth, output from hydropower plants has fallen to 20.1 percent in electricity generation during the January-July period of this year, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency on Sept. 1.

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By the end of July, 735 hydropower plants generated electricity in Turkey.

The share of solar power in Turkey's total installed electricity capacity rose to 7.5 percent by the end of July but it is still lower than the country's untapped potential, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency on Aug. 16.

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