Ahmet USMAN-İZMİR
The Turkish power sector was mentioned on the Horizon Tour Panel within the Sectors organized in cooperation with the German-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Business (AHK) Turkey and DÜNYA Newspaper. Within the panel moderated by DÜNYA Newspaper (NBE) Chairman of the Board Hakan Güldağ and DÜNYA Newspaper Coordinator Didem Eryar Ünlü; Reminding that Turkey has the largest present account deficit within the power sector, the audio system stated that Turkey’s turning into an power exporter nation, due to the latest success in renewable power manufacturing and business, particularly wind and photo voltaic, the power disaster in Europe and the developments in hydrogen power. They emphasised that it was not a dream.
GÜNYAR: TURKEY AND GERMANY WILL PRODUCE JOINT HYDROGEN
AHK made the opening speech of the panel hosted by Ateş Çelik. Energy Working Group Member and Enercon Central Asia, Center East and Africa Regional Supervisor Arif Günyar said that AHK supplies companies with 141 representatives in 92 nations and stated, “It has places of work in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara in Turkey. It has near a thousand members, largely within the manufacturing business,” he stated. Stating that the whole put in energy within the Turkish power market is over 100 GW, Günyar stated, “Wind energy vegetation get a share of over 10 p.c and solar energy vegetation round 8-9 p.c from this. These numbers are growing. An power working group was established inside AHK in 2011 to develop Turkish-German cooperation in power. In 2012, a platform was established below the title of the Turkish-German Vitality Discussion board. Essential steps had been taken on this platform, wherein the private and non-private sector participated. The 4th of this platform was held in Germany on 11 October. Right here, a memorandum of understanding on the beginning and acceleration of inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing was signed between Turkey and Germany. It is crucial that Germany wants this mission as a result of present conjuncture and that it’s the importer on this inexperienced mission.”
Explaining that Enercon, as a wind turbine producer, noticed the chance within the sector 30-35 years in the past, Günyar stated, “Lastly, we signed a thousand MW contract with EnerjiSa. Turkey is at present writing a hit story on the planet. We’re the primary firm that believes in Turkey and builds the primary turbine. We have now now created a provide chain of over 250 with our subsidiaries in Turkey. There are practically 30 thousand workers on this ecosystem. Turkey will now not develop in wind power, however a developed nation. An annual quantity is required for this to proceed. This yr, Germany has declared that it’ll improve the present price of renewable power sources by one hundred pc, from 40 p.c to 80 p.c by 2030. This implies 10 GW of mission potential yearly. As individuals who have devoted themselves to this enterprise investing in Turkey, we expect that the general public will act with us and serve to make these investments, each by way of Turkey being a manufacturing middle and our traders investing in Europe.” Emphasizing that the variety of alternatives within the sector is greater than the variety of threats, Günyar stated, “We’re in a really dynamic world. The businesses that handle this course of in one of the simplest ways survive. We’re used to this in Turkey, however as a result of Europeans aren’t used to it, they seek the advice of us to fight single-digit inflation. As Enercon, we didn’t see Turkey as only a market, we made it a manufacturing base. We have now work to carry prototypes and new applied sciences. However in Turkey there’s a legislation none. We should be a creating nation, not only a producer.”
SERDAR: TURKEY IS IN THE MIDDLE OF HISTORICAL OPPORTUNITY
Gökhan Serdar, the EMEA and India Vice President of TPI Composites, the world’s largest impartial blade producer from the USA, said that they positioned Turkey as a manufacturing middle and stated, “With our 4 thousand 250 workers in our 2 factories in İzmir, we’ve got roughly one thousand generators, that’s, greater than 3 thousand blades per yr. we produce. The wind market in Turkey has additionally created an excellent alternative for the business within the final 10 years. Many elements, particularly the wing, tower and generator, are actually made in Turkey. Beforehand, the inexperienced transformation was seen as an mental work or romanticism. The power disaster has proven that the inexperienced transition is inevitable. We have now a critical alternative as an business in Turkey. As a result of along with the truth that we’ve got 4-5 instances the present wind potential in Turkey, there may be additionally a rising market in Europe”. Explaining that Turkey is in the course of a historic alternative, Serdar stated, “Germany will set up 10 thousand MW wind energy vegetation by 2030, and Europe will quadruple its installations. Elements for these generators aren’t simple to fabricate in Europe and aren’t thought of an excellent possibility in Asia. We’re on the middle of the enterprise. At the moment, we’ve got an put in energy of 20 thousand MW in wind and photo voltaic, however we’ve got a minimum of 10 instances the potential. Europe will want hydrogen. We may also be hydrogen exporters. Or we are able to export it as electrical energy. As a result of inexperienced power is required to supply hydrogen. This is a matter that can change our future as a rustic. That is why we should always concentrate on this by strengthening our incentive mechanisms, our infrastructures, and growing the installations. We see this within the ministry and paperwork. We have to flip this focus into outcomes”.
BAYÇÖL: WIND R ENERGY STRATEGY DOCUMENT WILL BE AVAILABLE THIS MONTH
EnerjiSa Manufacturing CEO İhsan Erbil Bayçöl additionally defined that they’ve a complete put in energy of three,700 MW in 22 energy vegetation, 56 p.c of which is obtained from home and renewable assets. Declaring that they meet about 5 p.c of Turkey’s consumption, Bayçöl stated, “We’re the market chief, however we aren’t glad with this. Our objective is to achieve an put in energy of over 5,000 MW, of which 1,500 MW is from wind. We assumed the funding duty for all the YEKA 2 and signed a contract with Enercon. Thus, we are going to improve Turkey’s put in wind energy by practically 10 p.c. We can not successfully use our energy within the wind and the solar. Turkey has a minimal of 40 thousand MW wind potential. Germany has 60 thousand MW solar energy vegetation. We are able to take this quantity as our path. Whereas growing the momentum in renewable power investments, we additionally must turn out to be Europe’s answer associate in inexperienced hydrogen. We’re a rustic that all the time takes power from outdoors. For the primary time, the chance to energise outdoors is in entrance of us in a really tangible manner. We should always not miss this chance. Turkey realizes its renewable capability, turns into a worldwide participant in inexperienced hydrogen, turns into an answer and provide middle in wind applied sciences for the entire world, so we are able to obtain win-win ends in just a few subjects. That is additionally thrilling,” he stated. Stating that the Ministry of Vitality will publish the Wind Vitality Technique Doc on the finish of this month, Bayçöl stated, “We felt the dearth of it. If 10, 20, 30-year targets are set, we place ourselves accordingly. It doesn’t matter what objective we set, we are able to solely do it with folks. Sadly, we’ve got misplaced our educated folks overseas for the final yr. Research on batteries, inexperienced hydrogen and renewable power can carry Turkey to an essential place. It might provide power not just for itself, but in addition for the close by geography. Manpower, financing parts and the power of the community to just accept new energy vegetation stand out as the topics that should be centered on this path.”
GÜLDAĞ: THE CAUSE OF THE CURRENT DEFICIT MAY BE TURKEY’S CHANCE
Whereas there are uncertainties in lots of fields in Turkey, the way forward for inexperienced power could be very clear, DÜNYA Newspaper (NBE) Chairman of the Board Hakan Güldağ stated, “Vitality, which we see because the primary purpose for the present account deficit, is a candidate to be Turkey’s likelihood. As a result of it affords an excellent alternative for us to seize the spirit of time. It appears that it’ll scale back the present account deficit and permit us to have a surplus in power. Tomorrow and the subsequent day, we are able to obtain this with the proper steps we are going to soak up power in an atmosphere the place the sensitivity of change charges decreases. Competitors is alive, innovation continues. It is vitally potential to transform potentials to kinetic power by means of renewable power.”
KUYTAK: SUCCESS IN THE WIND OF FINANCABLE PROJECTS
of the German state finance Yasemin Kuytak, Director of Turkey Consultant Workplace of KfW IPEX-Financial institution, identified that they largely function within the discipline of mission finance and stated: “On this respect, the renewable power sector is essential for us. As in the remainder of the world, we supported the sector with very excessive quantity of loans. We do that with the assist of export credit score establishments in Europe. Particularly German Hermes and Danish EKF supported us as two main organizations. Our portfolio in Turkey is roughly 1 billion Euros. Greater than half of this consists of renewable power tasks. There’s a finance membership fashioned by 27 growth banks, which contributed a complete of 224 billion euros to the power transition in 2021. 50 billion euros of this belongs to KfW.” Summarizing crucial purpose for Turkey’s growth within the wind, Kuytak stated, “This case has began to decelerate now, the inventory of financeable tasks has decreased lots. Previously, the acquisition assure in YEKDEM (Renewable Vitality Assets Assist Mechanism) was in {dollars}. This has been modified. It doesn’t create an simply financed state of affairs for bankers. It’s important to take the forex danger. No financial institution has had issues with the tasks thus far, however that does not imply it will not occur. Possibly it will be extra helpful to proceed in constructions that can remove the change price danger once more. The best mission can all the time be financed with the proper traders.”
GÜLDOĞAN: THERE IS NO DOUBLE DIGIT PROFITABLE BUSINESS IN THE WIND
Explaining that they manufacture mills and towers for wind energy vegetation, Mahmut Güldoğan, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Administrators of Ateş Wind Energy, stated, “We have now despatched over 320 mills to many elements of the world thus far. We have now an annual capability of near 1 GW. We produce towers that may serve 1.5GW yearly. We have now two extra main investments below development in Bergama OSB. Wind power is a topic that may be a mannequin for a lot of sectors in Turkey. Whereas we produce our personal power with our home assets, it is a mannequin that improves our expertise, business and employment. The alternatives outweigh the threats within the business. Maybe crucial menace is entry to power. That is why we’ve got to comply with the threats with the nook of our eye whereas chasing alternatives.” Stating that the sector brings collectively many good issues similar to lowering the present account deficit, lowering power costs, growing industrial manufacturing, creating employment, offering financing from overseas, and contributing to the world with clear power, Güldoğan stated, “In fact, there are various threats. We can not see what is going to occur tomorrow. These uncertainties on the planet are above us like Damocles’ sword. For these, we should always conduct such a clear communication with the general public in order that we are able to clear up the brand new uncertainty that we are going to encounter every single day. The general public can also be conscious of this. Wind is the most affordable power supply. That is why there may be nice competitors. We function below price stress. No enterprise is seeing double-digit income. If we don’t produce for five weeks a yr, we’re shedding. Potential tasks must exist, keep alive, be life like. If there are not any tasks in Turkey, new applied sciences is not going to come. That is additionally essential for export. Our funding functionality is proscribed to human assets. Our home mission infrastructure stays sturdy, logistics Our capabilities should be improved,” he stated.
Within the assembly on power; (from left to proper) DÜNYA Newspaper (NBE) Chairman Hakan Güldağ, TPI Composites EMEA and India Vice President Gökhan Serdar, EnerjiSa Manufacturing CEO İhsan Erbil Bayçöl, Ateş WindPower Vice Chairman Mahmut Güldoğan, KfW IPEX-Financial institution Turkey Consultant Workplace Director Yasemin Kuytak, AHK Vitality Working Group Member and Enercon Central Asia, Center East and Africa Regional Supervisor Arif Günyar and DÜNYA Newspaper Coordinator Didem Eryar Ünlü shared their views on the sector.
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