Berat Albayrak, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, stated that they have the target for Turkey to become an energy exporting country within 10 years.

Minister Berat Albayrak, came together with Ankara representatives of national newspapers and made important explanations with regard to the energy strategy of Turkey. Albayrak, underlined the importance of energy generation with domestic resources while saying that until 2023, many power plants (based on domestic coal, sun and wind) having 15.000 MW total capacity will be in production.

The last winter with concern on gas supply

Albayrak stated that, an energy strategy is identified which aims to eliminate any risks threatening the supply security in medium term via the increase in LNG and storage capacity, and said, “In 6 months, which is a record, our first FSRU was taken into service. We also launched our Salt Lake Storage Project. It was a topic since the beginning of 2000’s.” Albayrak, underlined that this is the last winter that Turkey has a concern about natural gas supply, while adding, with alternative energy sources and markets, natural gas prices will be further reduced and the discount will be reflected to households and industry bills.

“By 2020 we will meet 2/3 of our energy from our domestic resources”

Minister Albayrak, pointed at Turkey’s energy-dependency and stated that within 10 years they aim Turkey to become an energy exporting country. He said, “In 2016, we achieved very important success in domestic resources and domestic reserves. Domestic coal, hydroelectric power plants, solar, wind, all the energy generated from these domestic resources accounted for 49.3% of our total generation. Hopefully in the 2020’s, we aim to supply 2/3 of our energy from our domestic resources.”

UK based consulting company Lloyd's Register’s Energy Director Alasdair Buchanan, said that Turkey has fantastic energy resources with some of the best wind and solar resources in the region.

Buchanan, stated that, in the wind industry, the evidence of confidence from developers and investors could be seen in Turkey as far back as the late 2000’s and said, “"Turkey has fantastic energy resources and access to fuel. Currently around 75 percent of its energy comes from coal or gas, but the wind and solar resources are some of the best in the region.”

Pointing out that renewable energy’s share continues to grow, and the technologies have improved significantly, Buchanan said; "Energy storage is starting to address the intermittency issues that are constantly portrayed, but significant renewable energy on a national network is very achievable. As for gas, this is still a carbon- intensive fuel, just less carbon intensive than coal. Expanding the use of gas reduces the need for coal, and brings down the level of carbon emissions. However, it doesn’t reduce our use of carbon fuels. It was always intended to be a transition fuel, reducing the use of coal while alternative and renewable technologies developed to a point where they can take large proportions of energy generation, which they now can."

- Gas to remain popular

Buchanan said that gas will remain a popular and low cost fuel source and will continue to form a significant part of the global energy supply in the short to medium term.

Source: aaenergyterminal.com

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Distributech
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New and Renewable Energy Resources for Sustainable Future
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International Smart Cities Conference 2
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