Turkey's wind electricity generation hit a daily record on Wednesday with 16.8 percent of the total power being generated from wind.
The country produced 130.7 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity from wind farms between 7 p.m. Tuesday and 7 p.m. Wednesday, according to data provided by the Turkish Energy Exchange (EPIAS).
In this particular time period, wind power became the third largest energy source after natural gas which generated 213.5 GWh of electricity. Hard coal came second with 180.6 GWh.
Hydropower plants, kinetic energy from rivers, geothermal, biomass, fuel oil, solar, diesel and LNG supplied the remaining share of whole production which hit 780.6 GWh.
Throughout the period, wind power generation per hour remained above 5 GWh, standing at 5.45 GWh in average.
According to Turkey's Energy Market Regulatory Authority, Turkey's total installed power capacity was 82 GW by the end of June. Wind power installed capacity was 6.64 GW over the same period.
- Wind power in Turkey
The country plans to boost its wind and solar capacity by 10,000 MW each in the coming decade through renewable energy resources zone (YEKA) tenders.
The Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources will accept applications up to Oct. 23 for one of the biggest offshore wind plants in the world at 1.2 GW, which will also be the first of its kind in the country. The ceiling price for one megawatt-hour in the reverse bid auction has been set at $8.
Part of the tender stipulates that the winning investor, who submits the lowest bid, will sign an energy purchase agreement with the ministry for the first 50 terawatt-hours of electricity production starting from the first commissioning of the plant.
The tender specifications require 60 percent local equipment production and call for 80 percent of the engineers employed to be of Turkish origin. Saros and Gallipoli located in the Marmara region and Kiyikoy in the Thrace were named the candidate regions for the power plant in March.
(Anadolu Agency)
