TR Renewable energy, investment, potential

[Zafer]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1399294070808252419

Azerbaijan should prepare for the end of gas exports era like the Arabs should. Probably the best way to do so is to focus on plastic recine and other processed petrol products production.

 

[Bogeyman]

Azerbaijan should prepare for the end of gas exports era like the Arabs should. Probably the best way to do so is to focus on plastic recine and other processed petrol products production.

The world is now preparing for hydrogen. Azerbaijan is clear in this regard.

 

[Bogeyman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1402320939153506309

 

[Stuka]

4 megawatts of energy is transferred to the grid in Karapınar SPP​

Electricity is supplied to the grid with the commissioning of 4 megawatts of installed power at the Karapınar Solar Power Plant (GES), which will be built on an area of 20 million square meters in Konya.​

Konya​

Kalyon Energy, which won the Renewable Energy Resource Areas Solar Energy (YEKA GES-1) tender , opened by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and held on March 20, 2017, with a bid of 6.99 dollars/cent per kilowatt hour , continues its work in Karapınar.
In Karapınar SPP , the panels produced at the Kalyon Solar Technologies Factory, which was opened last month with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, are being assembled.
In the power plant, which will have a total installed capacity of 1000 megawatts and will be built on a 20 million square meter land, electricity is supplied to the grid with the commissioning of the installed power of 4 megawatts.

When completed, it will meet the electricity needs of 2 million people annually.​

The power plant, which aims to install approximately 104 thousand panels every month, will meet the electricity needs of 2 million people annually when completed.
The panels, which are produced at the Kalyon Solar Technologies Factory and have a high efficiency of 22 percent, will follow the sun from sunrise to sunset. Thus, it will produce 12 percent more electricity.

Ata, stating that a dream came true with Karapınar GES, reminded that the installed panels reached a domestic contribution rate of over 75 percent.

Explaining that a 1300 megawatt panel will be installed in the area, Ata said:

"Electrical energy installed power is 1000 megawatts, but we will put the 1300 megawatt panel into operation as we build it step by step. There will be a solar power plant at a distance that the eye can't see. A huge power plant with a length of 13 kilometers and a width of 1.5-2 kilometers. We installed 10 thousand 300 panels of 4 megawatts produced in our factory. and we commissioned this section. Currently, the 4 megawatt panel produces electricity. We supply this electricity from the switchyard to the national grid. Ministry officials also accepted this facility. Depending on the position of the sun, 4 megawatts of electricity is produced in an hour."

Stating that the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources provided all kinds of support from the beginning of the project, Ata expressed that the YEKA project is one of the most strategic projects in Turkey.

"It will be a man-made facility seen from space"​

Expressing that it is aimed to install all the panels in the power plant in June 2023, Ata said:

"Our factory has a monthly production capacity of 500 megawatts of panels. We will install 1300 megawatts of panels here. We will have completed this place in about 32 months. We said 'Bismillah' and this is the first inverter we commissioned. By Allah's permission, we will fill an area of 20 million square meters with these panels. This is like the Great Wall of China. "It will be a man-made facility seen from space. It is Turkey's first gigantic facility. It takes about an hour to drive around it."


You can actually see it from space!

Notes:

Entire Output, when finished in Q4 2022, will be 1000Megawatts for 1 Billion USD investment.
In Comparison: Akkuyu Nuclear Plant has 4 Units each putting out 1114 Megawatts. with 5 billion USD per Unit (20B all 4)

 

[Agha Sher]

Entire Output, when finished in Q4 2022, will be 1000Megawatts for 1 Billion USD investment.
In Comparison: Akkuyu Nuclear Plant has 4 Units each putting out 1114 Megawatts. with 5 billion USD per Unit (20B all 4)

Comparison is a little unfair. the Nuclear plant will generate a steady output in despite weather conditions. In addition, I guess Turkey will get some knowledge transfer from the Nuclear plant project. Lastly, there is also prestige in having nuclear energy, especially as Turkey is emerging as a regional power.

 

[Stuka]

Comparison is a little unfair. the Nuclear plant will generate a steady output in despite weather conditions. In addition, I guess Turkey will get some knowledge transfer from the Nuclear plant project. Lastly, there is also prestige in having nuclear energy, especially as Turkey is emerging as a regional power.

Of course it was just a little Comparison in capacity. extremely simplified.
I am convinced that Nuclear energy is the Future. Solar and Nuclear Plants shouldn't be substitutes but rather complementary.
As a matter of Fact I think that Turkey should be working on establishing more Nuclear Plants ASAP.

 

[Saithan]

Yer: Bursa...Virajı tam 1 saatte aldı

Olay, dün saat 17.30 sıralarında merkez Nilüfer ilçesi Görükle Kavşağı’nda meydana geldi.

www.veryansintv.com

Are those old roads or new roads ? Don't we have high ways that circumvent small narrow roads near cities for Mega project transportation ?

Windmill parts being transported blocking roads etc. is kinda a nice dilemma to run into compared to what issues we usually discuss.

 

[Saithan]

Of course it was just a little Comparison in capacity. extremely simplified.
I am convinced that Nuclear energy is the Future. Solar and Nuclear Plants shouldn't be substitutes but rather complementary.
As a matter of Fact I think that Turkey should be working on establishing more Nuclear Plants ASAP.

I hope and pray that it's not fertile soils area that is being used for these projects.

 

[Anmdt]

Yer: Bursa...Virajı tam 1 saatte aldı

Olay, dün saat 17.30 sıralarında merkez Nilüfer ilçesi Görükle Kavşağı’nda meydana geldi.

www.veryansintv.com

Are those old roads or new roads ? Don't we have high ways that circumvent small narrow roads near cities for Mega project transportation ?

Windmill parts being transported blocking roads etc. is kinda a nice dilemma to run into compared to what issues we usually discuss.

Typical Turkish business:
Make 3-4 lane highways,
Forget making decent connections from major ports and plants to those highways.

 

[Saithan]

Typical Turkish business:
Make 3-4 lane highways,
Forget making decent connections from major ports and plants to those highways.

Perhaps just hiring proper people from Europe like the KSA etc. does would actually benefit the growth of regions and cities in Turkey...

including city planners. I mean we went to get Mahmut to TEI from US. Why not continue the trend.

 

[Anmdt]

Perhaps just hiring proper people from Europe like the KSA etc. does would actually benefit the growth of regions and cities in Turkey...

including city planners. I mean we went to get Mahmut to TEI from US. Why not continue the trend.

Could be really useful for small cities but even at these the municipalities are refraining from blocking the contractors. Since most contractors are linked to a party and they tend to not obey the entire of the rules and force municipalities to change the land plans according the their own taste.

So it is not a matter of not having educated and good people to make the city plans, the problem is the plans are never fulfilled.

I remember in my hometown a site was designated as possible expansion of a critical facility, a contractor managed to get those lands and forced land plans to be changed and built a luxury housing site.

When the facility needed to expand and build a newer road for heavier trucks with a connection from newly made intercity road, they needed to make it through a hard way which took 2 years and needed 1-2 km of deep space to be filled. In those years the trucks had to use the village road and broken it apart within a week after repair.

 

[Saithan]

Massive solar power plant turns Turkey into energy tech developer

The Turkish public has witnessed the completion of the first phase of the country's biggest solar plant, built by Kalyon Holding, and the photovoltaic...

www.dailysabah.com

It really looks like the whole area where these panels are planted are going to be planted are evened out. I am sure developed countries would have found a dual usefulness of such a big area. e.g. certain plants that can be harvested without too much hassle and such.

 

[Stuka]

Massive solar power plant turns Turkey into energy tech developer

The Turkish public has witnessed the completion of the first phase of the country's biggest solar plant, built by Kalyon Holding, and the photovoltaic...

www.dailysabah.com

It really looks like the whole area where these panels are planted are going to be planted are evened out. I am sure developed countries would have found a dual usefulness of such a big area. e.g. certain plants that can be harvested without too much hassle and such.

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In Context of Dual Use.
There are many water Canals in Turkey. You could cut down water loss due to heat and control Algae growth with a roof.

Like in India

 

[Cypro]

In Context of Dual Use.
There are many water Canals in Turkey. You could cut down water loss due to heat and control Algae growth with a roof.

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Like in India

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Also lakes and dams.. best places to use for combined benefit which would also lower evaporation. South East Turkey (GAP) is the best choice regarding this. However PV panels which would be put over sea or water resources should be designed differently. Evaporation, constant humidity, corrosion etc. should be considered. Mold and other annoying stuff also tend to grow. If the water is salty corrosion is inevitable which would lead to fast degradation.

 

[Timur]

Massive solar power plant turns Turkey into energy tech developer

The Turkish public has witnessed the completion of the first phase of the country's biggest solar plant, built by Kalyon Holding, and the photovoltaic...

www.dailysabah.com

It really looks like the whole area where these panels are planted are going to be planted are evened out. I am sure developed countries would have found a dual usefulness of such a big area. e.g. certain plants that can be harvested without too much hassle and such.

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this or just for bees and bugs a place to live.. you dont need to get food out of these area.. you can do somethin for the environment that also benefits the whole area from plants to bug /bee hotels

 

[Anmdt]

In Context of Dual Use.
There are many water Canals in Turkey. You could cut down water loss due to heat and control Algae growth with a roof.

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Like in India

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this was offered to several south eastern provinces (urfa to start with), places especially get extremely hot and dry and evaporation losses becom extreme, this was suggested to those provinces much longer than India actually started doing that.
Unfortunately those provinces' majors and several sponsors has seen a few millions of TRY as a waste back then, now they have realized that those solar panels combined together can power majority of the farms with electricity during the day and also prevent evaporation.

Anyway, it has been 10 years and more.

 

[Saithan]

this or just for bees and bugs a place to live.. you dont need to get food out of these area.. you can do somethin for the environment that also benefits the whole area from plants to bug /bee hotels

It was just an example of how we could contribute to preserving some ecosystem while also utilizing energy generation

 

[Stuka]

This is Great.

Renewables make up 99.6% of new power capacity in Turkey this year

Hydroelectric units accounted for 66.6% of the commissioned power capacity in Turkey in the first three quarters, compared to 99.6% for all renewables.

balkangreenenergynews.com

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The International Energy Agency (IEA)
Country report — March 2021

Renewables

Turkey has experienced impressive growth in renewables in the past decade (notably solar, wind and geothermal), driven by a favourable resource endowment, strong energy demand growth and supportive government policies. In particular, renewable electricity generation has nearly tripled in the last decade, and its share in total power generation reached 44% in 2019 (including notable growth in distributed solar generation). As such, Turkey has already exceeded its target of 38.8% of power generation from renewables set out under the Eleventh Development Plan (2019-2023). Turkey aims to continue to promote the expansion of renewable energy resources and will commission 10 gigawatts (GW) each of solar and wind capacity in the period 2017-27.

Nuclear

Turkey has embarked on an ambitious nuclear power strategy to build its first nuclear power plant to limit the use of imported fuels for power generation. Turkey is planning to install three nuclear power plants (NPPs) for a total of 12 reactor units. Currently, the first NPP (Akkuyu NPP) is under construction in Mersin Province on the southern coast of Turkey and comprises 4 units with a total installed capacity of 4 800 MW. The first unit of the Akkuyu NPP is scheduled to enter into operation at the end of 2023.

Hydro

During 2020, hydropower projects totalling 21 GW in capacity were put into operation, up on 2019’s 15.6 GW. Nearly two-thirds of this growth came from China, which saw 13.8 GW of new capacity. Among other countries that added new capacity in 2020, only Turkey (2.5 GW) added more than 1 GW.
China remains the world leader in respect of total hydropower installed capacity with over 370 GW. Brazil (109 GW), the USA (102 GW), Canada (82 GW) and India (50 GW) make up the rest of the top five. Japan and Russia are just behind India, followed by Norway (33 GW) and Turkey (31 GW).

Biggest Hydro Projects in 2020: Pretty Impressive.

Geothermal​

The worldwide geothermal power generation capacity grew to 15,608 MW in 2020.​

(Think GeoEnergy)
The overall geothermal energy generation capacity reached 15,608 MW at the end of 2020, a relatively slight growth from 2019 due to the pandemic. Global renewable energy statistics further show almost all of the capacity additions took place in Turkey (168 MW). One of geothermal energy’s important characteristics is a high load factor, which means that each MW of capacity produces significantly more electricity in a year than an MW of wind or solar capacity.

Turkey 2021 – Analysis - IEA

Turkey 2021 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

www.iea.org

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This all seems pretty Great actually. I am not an Expert but the numbers seem to be impressive.

By the end of April 2021, Donmez said the country’s total installed power generation capacity exceeded 97.37 GW with renewable energy accounting for 52.5% of the total. According to Turkish Electricity Commission (TEIAS) statistics assessed by local PV association Gunder, till the end of April 2021 Turkey’s total installed PV capacity exceeded 7 GW

Look at the Potential.
"According to the report of the International Energy Agency, Turkey uses 3% of its potential in solar energy and 15% in wind."
There is still a lot of Room still. and Nuclear Reactor isn't included at all

 

[Lool]

This is Great.

Renewables make up 99.6% of new power capacity in Turkey this year

Hydroelectric units accounted for 66.6% of the commissioned power capacity in Turkey in the first three quarters, compared to 99.6% for all renewables.

balkangreenenergynews.com

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The International Energy Agency (IEA)
Country report — March 2021

Renewables

Turkey has experienced impressive growth in renewables in the past decade (notably solar, wind and geothermal), driven by a favourable resource endowment, strong energy demand growth and supportive government policies. In particular, renewable electricity generation has nearly tripled in the last decade, and its share in total power generation reached 44% in 2019 (including notable growth in distributed solar generation). As such, Turkey has already exceeded its target of 38.8% of power generation from renewables set out under the Eleventh Development Plan (2019-2023). Turkey aims to continue to promote the expansion of renewable energy resources and will commission 10 gigawatts (GW) each of solar and wind capacity in the period 2017-27.

Nuclear

Turkey has embarked on an ambitious nuclear power strategy to build its first nuclear power plant to limit the use of imported fuels for power generation. Turkey is planning to install three nuclear power plants (NPPs) for a total of 12 reactor units. Currently, the first NPP (Akkuyu NPP) is under construction in Mersin Province on the southern coast of Turkey and comprises 4 units with a total installed capacity of 4 800 MW. The first unit of the Akkuyu NPP is scheduled to enter into operation at the end of 2023.

Hydro

During 2020, hydropower projects totalling 21 GW in capacity were put into operation, up on 2019’s 15.6 GW. Nearly two-thirds of this growth came from China, which saw 13.8 GW of new capacity. Among other countries that added new capacity in 2020, only Turkey (2.5 GW) added more than 1 GW.
China remains the world leader in respect of total hydropower installed capacity with over 370 GW. Brazil (109 GW), the USA (102 GW), Canada (82 GW) and India (50 GW) make up the rest of the top five. Japan and Russia are just behind India, followed by Norway (33 GW) and Turkey (31 GW).

Biggest Hydro Projects in 2020: Pretty Impressive.

View attachment 23369

Geothermal​

The worldwide geothermal power generation capacity grew to 15,608 MW in 2020.​

(Think GeoEnergy)
The overall geothermal energy generation capacity reached 15,608 MW at the end of 2020, a relatively slight growth from 2019 due to the pandemic. Global renewable energy statistics further show almost all of the capacity additions took place in Turkey (168 MW). One of geothermal energy’s important characteristics is a high load factor, which means that each MW of capacity produces significantly more electricity in a year than an MW of wind or solar capacity.

Turkey 2021 – Analysis - IEA

Turkey 2021 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

www.iea.org

---

This all seems pretty Great actually. I am not an Expert but the numbers seem to be impressive.

By the end of April 2021, Donmez said the country’s total installed power generation capacity exceeded 97.37 GW with renewable energy accounting for 52.5% of the total. According to Turkish Electricity Commission (TEIAS) statistics assessed by local PV association Gunder, till the end of April 2021 Turkey’s total installed PV capacity exceeded 7 GW

Look at the Potential.
"According to the report of the International Energy Agency, Turkey uses 3% of its potential in solar energy and 15% in wind."
There is still a lot of Room still. and Nuclear Reactor isn't included at all

It seems that they are finally reaping some benefits
The government has been promoting green energy since 2010s and now they are finally reaping their rewards
I believe that the government should do more. Invest in more solar, wind, and hydro production facilities and then build such infrastructure in desert areas to reap maximum benefits
Renewables reduce energy imports, reduce total trade deficit and insures more dollars stay inside the country which strengthens the lira

 

[Stuka]

It seems that they are finally reaping some benefits
The government has been promoting green energy since 2010s and now they are finally reaping their rewards
I believe that the government should do more. Invest in more solar, wind, and hydro production facilities and then build such infrastructure in desert areas to reap maximum benefits
Renewables reduce energy imports, reduce total trade deficit and insures more dollars stay inside the country which strengthens the lira

I agree 100%.
Especially since it doesn't take much time to build a Solar farm. Perhaps you could force institutions that build e.g. Schools to implement Solar Panels in the Roofs.

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