Wind power

A consortium of German giant Siemens and Turkey's Türkerler and Kalyon Enerji holdings won a billion-dollar wind energy tender on Aug. 3, offering the lowest price to the state with $3.48 cents per kilowatt hour.   

LM Wind Power, a subsidiary of GE Renewable Energy, announced the start of production at its wind turbine blade factory in Turkey on July 13. 

The company invested $50 million in Turkey to establish the company, which will employ 450 technical personnel. 

Wind power accounted for 10.1 percent of the total amount of electrical energy produced in Greece last year, just above the European Union average, which stood at 10 percent in 2016.

A leading businessman from the energy sector has said Turkey could reach its target of 20,000 megawatts (MW) of installed wind power capacity by 2023 by revising its existing investment and licensing model. 

Turkey has fantastic potential for developing solar and wind power, according to participants at a climate panel in Istanbul.

A number or local residents in the Aegean province of ?zmir's touristic Çe?me and Karaburun districts have filed a lawsuit against the construction of wind power plants in their neighborhoods.

Everybody with environmental sensitivity in Turkey agrees fossil fuels like coal should be abandoned and renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power should be considered.

Turkey has announced a series of new subsidies to support renewable energy equipment production, as it raises its renewable energy targets.

A total of 2,084 megawatts (MW) of new installed power capacity came online in the first half of the year for around 10 billion Turkish Liras ($3.6 billion) of investment, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z has said. 

Almost all of the new installed power was produced from renewable sources, he said. 

"This is specifically very good news for Turkey," Y?ld?z added. 

Historical artifacts were discovered during the construction of a wind power plant in Silivri, but the Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board has not declared the area a first-degree archaeological site Turkey's Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board has refused to declare a plot of land in Istanbul's Silivri district as a first-degree archaeological site despite the