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Turkey installed capacity exceeds 50 000 MW

  • 13 years ago (2011-05-03)
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According to calculations based on data received from Turkish Electricity Production Company (TEİAŞ) and Energy Market Regulatory Agency (EPDK), installed power generation capacity across Turkey reached 50 422 MW at the beginning of April.
The Anatolia news agency reported that of this capacity, 64.3 per cent was from thermal power plants and another 32.8 per cent from hydro plants. Most of the remaining 2.9 per cent capacity -- some 1360 MW – was attributable to wind generation, which the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government is placing an ever increasing emphasis on.
So far the EPDK has issued wind turbine operation licenses to 120 applicants and intends to issue a further 46 in the near future. EPDK officials have said installed power generation capacity of wind turbines across the country is expected be as high as 10 000 MW once the state body has made its final decisions regarding 580 pending licence applications.
Turkey is presently heavily dependent on foreign energy supplies, but aspires to become self-sufficient by 2023, the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey.
To this end, the government aims to have three nuclear power plants operational by that year, while also pushing the agenda to maximise the country’s hydroelectric potential and develop renewable energy production.
It has already reached an agreement with Russia’s Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation to construct a $20 billion nuclear power plant in the Akkuyu district in the southern province of Mersin. Talks with Japan regarding the construction of another plant in the northern province of Sinop were suspended after the nuclear crisis in Japan.
According to the Energy 2010 report by the World Energy Council’s Ankara-based Turkish National Committee (DEK-TMK), while Turkey’s primary domestic energy generation accounted for 29.5 per cent of the energy it consumed in 2009, the country saw its foreign dependency increase when this rate dropped to 28.5 per cent in 2010. The report forecasts that this year the country’s domestic primary energy production – despite an expected 2.5 per cent year-on-year increase – will only account for 27.6 per cent of its energy needs in 2011.

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