As population growth continues, global energy consumption continues to increase. Considering the depletion of natural resources and the damage that many of these resources cause to the environment, renewable energy sources come to the fore.
Efforts to produce energy without the need for fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are becoming more important day by day. The trend towards 'green energy' is also increasing. Comparison site encazip.com examined the details about renewable energy in the world and in Turkey.
Accordingly, electricity production from renewable energy sources in Turkey decreased compared to last year.
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The renewable energy production rate, which was 44,45 last year, decreased to 42,62 this year. It seems that the biggest factor in the decrease in production is drought. While the share of electricity production from hydroelectricity in total consumption was 23 percent in the previous year, this rate decreased to 2023 percent in 20.
Although the installed capacity in hydroelectricity remains unchanged, the 15 PERCENT decline in hydroelectricity production reveals that drought reduces renewable energy production. This gap in renewable resources was filled with electricity produced from thermal power plants. While the electricity production rate from thermal power plants was 2022 percent in 55,55, this rate increased to 2023 percent in 57,38.
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When we look at the source types, it is seen that while the share of Turkey's hydroelectric source electricity production in total production is 22,94 percent, this rate decreases to 2023 percent in 19.94. While the share of electricity produced from wind energy was 2022 percent in 10.50, 2023 percent of electricity was produced in 10.34. The share of solar electricity production increased from 4,96 percent to 6.12 percent. On the installed power side, the majority of our total electricity generation installed power is renewable resources with 55 percent, while the share of thermal resources remained at 45 percent.
Commenting on the electricity production data between 2022 and 2023, encazip.com founder and savings expert Çağada Kırım underlined that the renewable energy potential in our country is extremely serious and stated that renewable energy investments should be further encouraged.
Crimea pointed out that Turkey's renewable energy theoretical potential is at a level that can easily meet most of our electricity needs and said, “The momentum in renewable energy power plant investments is good, but it can be increased. In this way, we produce electricity that is both environmentally friendly and very cheap. To achieve this, all obstacles to investors must be removed and attractive incentives must be introduced for renewable energy investors. Of course, these incentives should remain at reasonable levels, but we need to attract the attention of every local or foreign investor to renewable energy investment. For this, a target date should be determined, as the European Union or other countries do, and we should set out again with targets such as, for example, we will produce 2040 percent of our electricity from renewable sources in 80.” he said.
