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Revision as of 15:14, 20 November 2012
Overview
Turkey
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Capital
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Ankara
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Official language(s)
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Turkish
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Government
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Parliamentary Republic
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President
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Abdullah Gül
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Prime Minister
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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Total area
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783,562 km2
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Population [1]
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74,724,269
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Rural-Population
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Urban-Population
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Population Density
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97 persons per km2
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Average Household Size
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GDP (nominal)
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$774.336 billion
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GDP per Capita
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$10,362
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Currency
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Turkish Lira (TRY)
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Time Zone
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EET (UTC+2)
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Calling Code
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+90
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Energy situation
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Energy Supply
Secure energy supply remains essential also for Turkey. In this context, significant progress has been made recently in legal and technical terms which include restructuring our energy market on a competitive transparent basis, identifying and utilizing our domestic and renewable resource potentials, making nuclear energy a part of electricity production, and making use of energy efficiency and new energy technologies.
Electricity
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Energy Consumption
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Energy demand
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Electricity
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Access rate
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Market situation for different energy technologies and services
Solar Energy
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Wind Energy
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Biomass
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Biogas
Electricity from Waste in Turkey. DW World film "Ideas for a cooler world" about a recycling and waste treatment center in Adana. Klick here
Hydro Power
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Other renewable Sources
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Key problems of the energy sector
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Policy framework, laws and regulations
With a view to meet the high increase in demand, make sufficient investments, and increase economic efficiency, a new initiative was started after 2000 for structuring the energy sector around the central element of competition.
General Energy policy, Energy strategy
Turkey's energy policy principally aims at:
- Making energy available for the consumers in terms of cost, time and amount,
- Exploiting public an private facilities within the framework of free market practices,
- Discouraging import dependency,
- Securing a strong position for our country in regional and global trade of energy,
- Ensuring the availability of diversified resources, routes and technologies
- Ensuring maximum use of renewable resources,
- Increasing energy efficiency,
- Minimizing negative environmental impact while producing and using energy and natural resources.
Important Laws and Regulations
Following legislation were passed in respective chronology,
- Electricity Market Law (2001)
- Natural Gas Market Law (2001)
- Petroleum Market Law (2003)
- LPG Market Law (2005)
- Law on Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources for the Purpose of Generating Electrical Energy (2005)
- Energy Efficiency Law (2007)
- Law on Geothermal Resources and Mineral Waters (2007)
- Law on Construction and Operation of Nuclear Power Plants and Energy Sale (2007). This Law also introduced regulations regarding the utilization of domestic coal resources for the purpose of generating electrical energy, encouraging the establishment domestic coal fired thermal power plants.
- Law (2008) on the Amendment of Electricity Market Law No. 5784 on Supply Security and Certain Other Laws.
Specific strategies (Biomass, renewable energies, rural electrification, energy access strategy etc.)
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Institutional set up in the energy sector
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Governmental institutions Private sector (enterprises, NGOs)
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Activities of other donors, activities of NGOs
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Existing projects
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Publications
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External links
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