BAYRAKTAR: TURKEY AİMS TO İNCREASE RENEWABLE ENERGY CAPACİTY BY 60,000 MW BY 2035

Details: 21 May 2024

17.05.24

Türkiye shattered records for solar and wind power generation in April, a sign of the country's growing focus on renewable energy, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar said on Friday.

Solar energy output surged to 2.4 billion kilowatt-hours in April, pushing its share of total electricity generation to a record 10 percent, Bayraktar stated. April has also been a record-breaking month of wind power, according to the minister.

"Wind energy generation reached an all-time high of 3.2 billion kilowatt-hours in April," Bayraktar said. He pointed out that the total electricity generation based on renewable energy sources reached an all-time high of 15.5 billion kilowatt-hours.

While Türkiye aimed to increase its installed capacity by 80,000 megawatts by 2035, "60,000 megawatts of this increase would come from renewable sources," the minister said.

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Turkey

Capital: Ankara ( 5 270 57)

Other big cities: Istanbul (14 657 434), Izmir (4 168 415), Bursa (2 842 547), Antalya (2 288 45), Adana (2 183 16)

Form of government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic

Area: 783 652 km²

Population: 79 814 871 (2017)

Export: $150,2 billion (2016)

Import: $191 billion (2016)

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