Turkey is the world's fifteenth-highest consumer of electricity, according to new research.
The country consumed 245 billion kilowatt-hours in 2013 - a rise of 1.3 percent - and is expected to use 257 billion kilowatt-hours this year, research by Anadolu Agency showed on Tuesday.
The world consumes about 23.5 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, with the globe's fastest-growing economy, China, single-handedly accounting for nearly a quarter of it.
The US is second, energy-rich Russia third and Japan fourth, followed by India.
Germany - the biggest electricity consumer in the European Union - is seventh on the list.
- Coal dominating power production
More than 40 percent of electricity in the world is produced by solid fuels such as coal.
About a quarter is produced by natural gas, about a fifth from renewable resources, 13 percent from nuclear and five percent from oil and other resources.
Turkey is second in the world after China in terms of rising demand for electricity.
Turkey's demand almost doubled in the past decade and is expected to double again by 2023.
In order to match the rate of increase, it is aiming to invest more than $120 billion in the energy sector.
The Turkish government aims to diversify its energy supplies and plans to build two nuclear power plants by 2023.
One plant, which Russian energy company Rosatom has agreed to build and operate, is sited in Mersin on the Mediterranean coast and the other in Sinop on the Black Sea coast will be operated by a French-Japanese consortium.
Each investment will cost about $20 billion.
The top electricity consuming countries are:
Country
Electricity consumption kilowatt-hours
(Billion)
China 5.322
USA 3.886
EU 3.037
Russia 1.038
Japan 859
India 698
Germany 582
Canada 499
France 462
Brazil 455
South Korea 449
UK 323
Italy 307
Taiwan 250
Spain 249
Turkey 245
South Africa 234
Australia 231
Mexica 212
Iran 199
Saudi Arabia 190
by Ata Ufuk Seker
Anadolu Agency