Turkey broke an all-time daily high record on local and renewable energy power generation, announced the country’s energy and natural resources minister Fatih Dönmez.
Dönmez said:
On May 24, we achieved a new record in daily production by generating 90% of our electricity from domestic and renewable resources. Our National Energy continues to renew, and our investments bear fruit.
Hydro plants were responsible for the most significant percentage of energy generation with 43.7%, while local coal plants contributed to 16.5%. Wind plants were responsible for 14.5%, and solar plants contributed to 7.2%. Finally, geothermal and biomass plants powered 5.3% and 2.6%.
Official figures from the Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAŞ) show a total electricity production peak at 457,921 megawatt-hours on May 24. Most of the energy came from hydroelectricity plants at 119,335 megawatt-hours. After came run-of-river plants and hard coal plants with 96,201 megawatt-hours and 73,170 megawatt-hours.
Dönmez claims that approximately 70% of Turkey’s additional capacity in the past five years came from local, renewable energy resources.
Over the past years, the country has invested in roughly $40 billion in renewable energy projects and installed renewable capacity to around 45,000 megawatts. Turkey currently ranks sixth place in Europe and 13th in the world in the field of renewable capacity.
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) data predicts that by 2024 Turkey’s renewable energy capacity of 42 gigawatts (GW) will reach 63 GW, placing Turkey at Europe’s top five and 11th worldwide in the field of renewable capacity.
