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concluded that the installed capacities of electricity generation plants are clustered
according to two factors: 1) industry, which is seen in the case of the northwest
provinces, and 2) the availability of natural resources, which is seen in the south-
east provinces. In fact, when the lower levels of electricity generation capacity are
considered, such as 3rd level (shown in yellow), the main determining factor is
also attributed to availability of natural resources as in the case of some central
and the south coast provinces.
14.3.3 Electricity Consumption in Turkey
Visualisation of electricity consumption of all sectors was performed for the data
between 1997 and 2006. Although the study comprises 10 years of data, only
those from 2006 (
Figure 14.5
) are presented here. The difference between eastern
and western provinces is clearly seen. The pattern shows an artificial separating
line between the northwest and the southeast that crosses the central Anatolia di-
agonally. To the left of this line, five high-consumption clusters are observed.
These clusters are located in the northwest, the west, central, southern coast, and
the environs of the southeast coast. These provinces have high population densi-
ties and harbour energy intensive industries such as iron and steel, and cement. In
fact, more than 70% of the country's total population lives in these regions clus-
tered to the left of the artificial separating line. These provinces also produce
about 86% of Turkey's GDP and they account for 86% of the total electricity con-
sumed in Turkey (TÜİK 2008 and TEDAŞ 2009).
Fig. 14.5.
Electricity consumption (kWh) in 2006
On the right of this line, there are two clustering groups that belong to the low
electricity consuming provinces. Most of these provinces have a lower population
and less industrialization. For all of the provinces in this group, the main indus-
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