An energy recycling project developed for thermal power plants by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and the İstanbul-based Yıldız Technical University (YTÜ) could save the country nearly TL 1 billion ($660 million) a year, the Anatolia news agency reported on Monday.
The project will use the energy emitted during the production of electricity at those plants to heat over 100,000 homes around Turkey, it said. The project will also provide those homes with warm water and reduce Turkey’s carbon dioxide and sulfur emissions, Anatolia added.
According to information received by the news agency from TÜBİTAK officials, whose names were not mentioned in the report, a huge amount of energy is emitted while the country’s 14 thermal power plants are producing electricity and this energy is heating the air. The joint research showed that 15 million megawatt hours (mWh) of this energy could be used for domestic heating and other purposes, the report said. The council and YTÜ have been working to recycle that much energy as part of the project for the last four years. The project was recently concluded and put in force at a thermal power plant in the western province of Kütahya’s Soma district. Only there, the recycled energy will be used to heat and provide warm water to 22,100 homes.
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