Thousands of people, including celebrities, on Saturday staged a march in Ghanaian capital Accra against repeated electrical power cuts across the country
- Electricity capacity additions through 2017 will average 14 GW, while this amount will be less than 4 GW a year on average between 2018 and 2024, and around 12 GW per year on average between 2025 and 2040
- In Turkey, 70 percent of government institutions, 25-30 percent of corporate offices, and only 10 percent of Turkish households have generators to produce electricity during blackouts
- Electricity sector shares increased nearly 30 percent in October and the sector was the most lucrative for investors according to the Borsa-Istanbul statistics
The Baltic countries, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, consumed more electricity than they produced in September compared to the same month last year, according to Estonian electricity company Elering.
- Turkey's energy minister says the strength of the dollar has made next month's price hike inevitable. But Turkish consumers currently pay lowest prices for gas among EU countries.