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  • Enerjisa Starts Turkey’s Biggest Wind Farm for 170,000 Homes

    Enerjisa Starts Turkey’s Biggest Wind Farm for 170,000 Homes

    Turkey’s biggest wind farm, financed with a 135 million-euro ($175 million) loan arranged by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, started producing power as the nation seeks to curb fossil-fuel imports.

    Enerjisa Enerji Uretim AS, owned by Haci Omer Sabanci Holding AS (SAHOL) and EON SE, developed the Enerjisa Bares wind park in Balikesir, western Turkey, according to a statement on the EBRD website. The 142.5-megawatt plant can power 170,000 Turkish homes, the EBRD said.

    Turkey, which depends on fossil-fuel imports mainly from Russia and Iran for much of its energy needs, aims to generate 30 percent of its power from renewables by 2030 and had about 2,300 megawatts of wind power installed at the end of last year, according to the European Wind Energy Association.

    via Enerjisa Starts Turkey’s Biggest Wind Farm for 170,000 Homes – Bloomberg.

  • GE Completes Sustainable Wind Energy Farm in Turkey

    GE Completes Sustainable Wind Energy Farm in Turkey

    General Electric and Gama Holding have completed its second wind farm project in Turkey. General Electric is the biggest maker of wind turbines in the U.S. The company recently surpassed 2 GW of installed capacity worldwide.

    The 10 MW project Karadag farm in Izmir in the Aegeon region went online this month with four 2.5 MW turbines. Like many other countries, Turkey is trying to increase the share of sustainable renewable power in its energy mix and has set a goal of 30 percent for 2023. The developing nation’s electricity demand grows at a rate of six percent per year, according to official estimates.

    “Our partnership with GAMA reinforces our commitment to investing in and building our presence in the global renewable energy market,” said Andrew Marsden, managing director, Europe at GE Energy Financial Services.

    Turkey is a strategic growth area for GE and the company has been investing in that country for more than 60 years. With six facilities and over 600 employees, GE today powers nearly 25 percent of Turkey’s electricity needs.

    Earlier in March, GE and Gama inaugurated the 22.5 MW Sares wind farm and together the operations will generate enough electricity to power 59,000 average Turkish homes and prevent 80,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year.

    Wind power is seen by many as one of the best bets to achieve a sustainable energy future. It is the most popular source of renewable electricity. At the end of the 20122, wind-powered generators achieve the record figure nameplate capacity of 238 GW, which was 41 GW more than the previous year. The World Wind Energy Association says that wind power has the capacity to generate 430 TWh per year, or 2.5 percent of the global electricity usage.

    Image credit: GE

    via GE Completes Sustainable Wind Energy Farm in Turkey | Corporate Social Responsibility.

  • Wind energy Vestas receives order for 72 MW in Turkey

    Wind energy Vestas receives order for 72 MW in Turkey

    Vestas has received a wind power order for delivery of 36 x 2 MW wind turbines for a wind farm in Turkey.

    Wind energy Vestas receives order for 72 MW in Turkey

    With reference to Vestas Wind Systems A/S’ company announcement No. 20/2011 of 11 May 2011, Vestas has received through Aksu Temiz Enerji Elektrik Üretim Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim ªirketi an order from Ayen Energy for delivery of 36 units of the 2 MW platform turbines for the Aksu wind power plant to be installed in the city of Kayseri, Turkey.

    The order comprises supply, installation on-site and commissioning of the turbines, a VestasOnline® Business SCADA system, as well as a seven-year service agreement including the Active Output Management package ‘AOM 4000’. The AOM 4000 is a full-scope service contract, consisting of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and consumables, which offers solid risk management for customers, who want an availability guarantee measured against an agreed threshold. This type of contract offers customers assured performance avoiding unforeseen operational costs of any kind.

    Delivery of the turbines is scheduled to start in Q2 2011 and the project is expected to be completed in Q4 2011.

    The order has been placed by Aksu Temiz Enerji Elektrik Üretim Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim ªirketi, a subsidiary of Ayen Energy, which has installed hydroelectric power plants and a natural gas plant. In addition, Ayen Energy has already built one wind power plant, and is currently in the process of constructing two others; the three of them represent a total wind capacity of more than 80 MW.

    Fahrettin Amir Arman, Board Member states: “We consider that Vestas has the proven technology able to meet the requirements of the Aksu project and that they are the wind turbine supplier and service provider which best can meet our needs. We are currently diversifying the energy portfolio of our company, and we see wind energy as a competitive, sustainable and complementary energy source. This 72 MW project, which will be the largest wind power plant we have installed so far, is an important step towards the diversification of our energy investments. We look forward to working together with Vestas, the global wind technology leader, on this project.”

    “We are extremely pleased that Ayen Energy has selected Vestas as preferred supplier for their largest wind investment, the Aksu project. Having been selected on the grounds of our solid experience, global track record and technological leadership, we hope that this project will lay the foundations for a long-lasting collaboration between the two companies,” expresses Ali Neyzi, Vice President of Vestas Türkiye.

    “The Aksu project directly supports Vestas’ vision: ‘Wind, Oil and Gas’. Ayen Energy’s investment in wind power is a good example of how energy companies around the world are diversifying their energy portfolio. Moreover, it shows the important role that wind can play going forward in Turkey and other parts of the world, as an energy source on a par with more traditional energy sources,” concludes Juan Araluce, President of Vestas Mediterranean.

    The Aksu wind power plant has an estimated annual production of 205,000 MWh per year, which corresponds to an annual emission saving of around 98,000 tons of CO2 emissions. Furthermore, it will provide enough electricity to cover the residential electricity consumption of almost 415,000 people in Turkey.

    Vestas Mediterranean is one of the seven Sales Business Units in the Vestas Group and it manages all sales, construction and service operations in the countries of the Mediterranean region, Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean as well as approximately 70 per cent of the African continent. As of 31 December 2010, this sales business unit delivered cumulative capacity close to 10 GW, representing 22.5 per cent of Vestas’ global capacity and had a workforce of 3,000 highly skilled and fully committed employees in the Mediterranean area. In the past three years, Vestas Mediterranean has accounted for approximately 35 per cent of the global sales in the Vestas Group.

    Vestas has been operating in Turkey since 1984 when it installed its first turbine. In January 2008, Vestas established an office in Istanbul, Vestas Türkiye, which is responsible for all sales, construction, service and maintenance operations in Turkey and the Middle East. All Vestas Türkiye’s activities have been certified by ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 – the international standards for the quality, environment and occupational health and safety. As of 31 December 2010, Vestas has delivered 375.91 MW in Turkey.

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  • Russia plans to build wind farms in Europe, Turkey

    Russia plans to build wind farms in Europe, Turkey

    By Anastasia Lyrchikova

    MOSCOW | Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:44pm EST

    (Reuters) – Russia’s state nuclear unit Rosatom is planning to expand into wind power and will look for foreign partners to help build farms in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Ukraine, its equipment head said on Friday.

    “We are looking for a technology partner. The desire of all world leaders (in wind technology) to take part in the Russian wind power market is there,” Vladimir Kashenko, Chief Executive of Rosatom’s equipment unit Atomenergomash, told Reuters.

    Resources-rich Russia currently has almost no wind energy turbines due to its vast reserves of oil and gas, but the government has said it now wants 4.5 percent of power to come from renewable resources by 2020.

    That compares with just 1 percent of total electricity being generated from renewable resources in Russia today, and a European Union 2020 target of 20 percent.

    Kashenko declined to name potential partners for the project, saying Indian, Chinese or European companies could enter the Russian market.

    “I am far from having illusions that we will produce all 100 percent of wind power generators at our enterprises. The market is capacious and other players, of course, will be here,” said Kashenko.

    One of the world’s biggest manufacturers of wind turbines is Germany’s Siemens — which signed a 1 billion euro ($1.36 billion) co-operation agreement with Russian wind power companies earlier this year.

    Kashenko said early wind power projects may include the construction of wind farms around seven Russian nuclear power stations from 2012, but the group would then target overseas markets.

    “Ukraine is very interesting in terms of alternative energy. In addition we plan to engage with Eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Turkey and with other countries traditionally friendly to Russia,” he said.

    He said he hoped ‘green tariffs’ would be introduced in Russia next year to ease financial concerns around the project.

    Russia President Dmitry Medvedev asked Energy Minister Igor Sechin to look into the issues of alternative energy and tariffs earlier this year.

    (Writing by John Bowker; Editing by Andrey Ostroukh)

    via Russia plans to build wind farms in Europe, Turkey | Reuters.