Turkey’s Wind Potential and Global Usage

Abstract

The increasing need for energy and global warming clean energy has become the most popular topic spoken today. Currently 85% of the total energy is provided by fossil fuels around the world. This shows how serious the situation is in terms of global warming. These days, the world's governments are planning to make significant investments to increase usage of clean energy sources. All the world's governments are coming together to discuss global warming more frequently in these days. Wind energy is the most popular among all the renewable energy sources. Global wind potential is approximately 72 TW and only benefiting 0.5 TW (0.007%) by 2015. Turkey overall wind potential is approximately 50,000 MW and only harnessed 10 % by 2015. Only if we think the global wind energy potential as one part of clean energy, it is enough to meet the Energy needs at the national and international level. In this study, the use of wind potential in Turkey and targets were investigated. In addition, the share of the global wind potential is discussed

Keywords

• Renewable energy, wind power, wind energy potential and utilization

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