Turkey Looks to Exploit Wind Energy Potential 

Register Today! Creating a free account on RenewableEnergyAccess.com takes less than a minute. As a community member you can: Receive our FREE e-newsletter Comment on news Interact with other members ... Stay informed! Turkey is set to double the amount of its electricity supplied by wind power with the construction of the biggest wind farm to date. The wind farm in southeast Turkey will have an installed capacity of 135 megawatts (MW) when it is completed in 2009. "We have terrific geographic conditions for solar and wind power in Turkey. Exploiting it is already economically and technically possible, but the problem is that the government favors fossil fuels and nuclear energy." -- Tanay Sdk Uyar, Vice President, World Wind Energy Association General Electric (GE) Energy will be supplying 52 of its latest generation of turbines with a capacity of 2.5 MW each. "Turkey is a fast growing and very interesting market for the wind business of GE," Frank Hoersting, Communications Lea   [More...] [Less...]

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