Use of the Renewable Energy Resources in Turkey

Abstract

Today, the biggest problem that concerns the whole world is the production of healthy and reliable energy. Fossil fuels are the most widely used energy sources. The use of fossil resources causes the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and, as a result, climate change. Global warming caused by climate change is causing great harm to our world. In order to minimize this damage, it is necessary to minimize the use of fossil fuels in energy production and to replace them with renewable energy sources. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydraulic, biomass, biogas, wave, current and tidal renewables are non-fossil energy sources. Turkey is in a very rich geographical position in terms of renewable energy sources.  In this study, using of renewable energy sources in Turkey were investigated. Turkey's installed capacity of renewable energy when the data are analyzed; with the largest share of hydroelectric energy at 26681.1 MW followed by 5751.3 MW of wind energy, 832.5 MW of solar energy, 820.9 MW of geothermal energy and finally 488.7 MW of biomass energy.

Keywords

• Renewable energy sources,Use of the renewable energy in Turkey

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