Turkey's electricity consumption decreased by 2.13 percent in October compared to the same month last year, according to Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry on Monday.

The country's power consumption was 22.66 billion kilowatt-hours in October.

Turkey produced 22.88 gigawatt-hours of electricity in October 2018 - a production decrease of 1.93 percent compared to the same month of 2017.

Turkey produced 34.84 percent of October's electricity from natural gas power plants while 10.64 percent came from hydro plants and 24.93 percent from imported coal.

Local coal plants contributed 18.84 percent to electricity generation, wind plants constituted 6.52 percent and the remaining 4.23 percent of electricity production was generated from geothermal, fuel oil and biogas plants.