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The 15^th foundation day of Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) was celebrated. Speaking at the ceremony, Berat Albayrak, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources said, energy sector has an important dynamo effect in the success story of Turkey.

Berat Albayrak, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources made important explanations with regard to the energy sector in 15^th foundation day celebration program of EMRA.
Albayrak, reminded that, as ministry, they give great importance to domestic and renewable energy sources and said that within 10 years they aim Turkey to become an energy exporting country. Albayrak said; “We aim to have energy supply in a more qualified and affordable way. Turkey needs to be an important actor in energy, which is a significant raw material in regional and global point.”

Minister Albayrak said that, despite the global financial crises, energy sector in Turkey grows with investments in infrastructure and increase in diversity of resources. Stating that in 2015, 49,3% of electricity generation was produced from domestic resources, Albayrak said, in 10 years Turkey has the target for having 2/3 of electricity generating from domestic resources.

EMRA sets an example for many countries
Speaking at the ceremony, Mustafa Yılmaz, Chairman of EMRA, said that, EMRA has become an institution that has been following the practices in the liberalization and regulation of energy markets with its experience of more than 15 years.  Yılmaz said, "We will discharge our responsibility to have our citizens use energy more continuously and more economically along with Turkey reaching to 2023 targets. I can proudly say that, as EMRA, we are setting an example with our international partnerships to regulatory authorities and institutions in many countries. "

Mesut Efe, General Manager of Uludağ DSO, said that they developed a product called “Grasshopper” which aims to identify electricity theft.

Giving electricity distribution service to 2,9 million consumers in the provinces of Bursa, Balıkesir, Çanakkale and Yalova, Uludağ DSO will make 1,2 billion TL investment in total between the years of 2016-2020.

Mesut Efe, General Manager of Uludağ DSO, emphasized that they give great importance to R&D and between the period of 2016-2020, they have increased the R&D budget to 12 million TL. Efe stated that they developed a product called “Grasshopper” with 100% domestic resources and it aims to identify electricity theft.

Efe said that Grasshopper is the first device developed in Turkey to fight against the illegal electricity consumption. He said, “We have been using Grasshopper for 1.5 years. Last year, we identified 20 percent of the illegal electricity consumers with this product.” Saying that they own the patent of Grasshopper, Efe said, other DSOs also intend to use Grasshopper too.

Grasshopper will identify the illegal electricity consumers

Efe told the story behind the name of Grasshopper. He said, “Illegal electricity consumers may bounce once or twice, but in the third time eventually the Grasshopper will identify them. We wanted to mention this framework in an ironic way.”

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Can current electricity markets cope with high shares of renewables?
A comparison of approaches in Germany, the UK and the State of New York
By: Michael G. Pollitt and Karim L. Anaya

This paper looks at the empirical and theoretical background to high shares of renewables in the electricity system. First we examine what is meant by ‘high shares’ of renewables; next we consider what we mean by electricity ‘markets’; then we discuss what the term ‘cope with’ implies; before returning to the suitability of ‘current’ electricity markets. Second, we turn to three examples of jurisdictions – Germany, the UK and the State of New York in the US - with specific aspirations for decarbonisation and the role of renewables. Each exhibits very different approaches to the way they are adjusting their electricity market design to cope with high shares of renewables. We suggest that a new wave of electricity experiments is beginning around the theme of how to incorporate large shares of intermittent renewable generation in to electricity systems.

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Turkish Electricity Sector in Details

Source: www.teias.gov.tr /  The Development of Transmission Lines of Turkey (2005-2015)