Hybrid wind-solar reliable solution for Turkey to meet electric demand

Year 2016, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 62 - 66, 30.09.2016

Kamran Dawood

Abstract

Energy is the most important part of life, it is

essential for social and economic development. Turkey is importing

more than half of the energy from other countries to produce

electricity by thermal plants. Air pollution is also becoming quite a

big problem for Turkey due to the thermal production of the energy.

One of the most effective solution for air pollution is renewable

energy because nowadays renewable energy is environment

friendly. Turkey has many geographical location advantages one of

them is renewable energy resources. Turkey has limited fossil fuel

resources and due to this reason Turkey must shift more electricity

production to the renewable energy resources. Renewable energy

has less environment impacts as compare to the fossil fuels but still

renewable energy sources are not reliable and competitive as

compare to the fossil fuels. The present study deals with the

advantages of Hybrid renewable energy systems (Solar and Wind

energy) in Turkey.

Map of Turkey with high resources of solar-wind hybrid energy

is also presented in this paper. Integration of Wind and solar

energy into the Turkish energy will be one of the main tools in

responding to the growing electricity demand because it will

decrease the dependence of energy on single method. In addition,

non-renewable energy is also compared with the renewable energy

sources on the economical basis.

Keywords

Renewable energy, Hybrid energy in Turkey, Solar energy, Wind Energy, Electricity generation in Turkey

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