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ARZU YORKAN<br />
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Figure 8: The share of sources in total electricity installed capacity in 2011<br />
Source: Data from (TKİ, 2012)<br />
the modern Turkish Republic. The<br />
country is therefore eager to raise<br />
the level of its economic wealth and<br />
industrial development by achieving<br />
the goals it has already established<br />
to be reached up till this date. The<br />
energy sector holds an important<br />
place, as the driver of economic development,<br />
though unfortunately it<br />
remains highly vulnerable to supply<br />
security problems.<br />
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT<br />
PROCESS, AND STRATEGIES FOR<br />
‘2023’<br />
The development of Turkish renewable<br />
energy sources and the strategies<br />
for their promotion has been<br />
periodically restated by the five-year<br />
national development plans of the<br />
Turkish Republic. Strategies for increasing<br />
use of hydropower by these<br />
plans have been in place for the past<br />
five decades, since the 1960s. By<br />
contrast, wind, solar, and geothermal<br />
resources arrived on the agenda<br />
two decades later. Although national<br />
five-year programmes envisaged<br />
strategies and plans for these resources<br />
from the 1980s, their promotion<br />
has remained very limited,<br />
with the exception of hydropower.<br />
By contrast, the ‘Law on Renewable<br />
Energy’ (Nr.5346) enacted in 2005<br />
and the ‘Strategy Paper on Electricity<br />
Market and Supply Security’ issued<br />
in 2009 have played significant<br />
roles in developing renewable energy<br />
in Turkey, since both have aimed<br />
to increase the share of all renewable<br />
sources in electricity generation<br />
(see the Article 1 of Law 5346). 1<br />
The Law on Renewable Energy sets<br />
out a legal framework for production,<br />
investment and subsidies for<br />
the renewable energy resources.<br />
1.<br />
Article I (Turkish): MADDE 1- (1) Bu Kanunun amacı; yenilenebilir enerji kaynaklarının elektrik enerjisi<br />
üretimi amaçlı kullanımının yaygınlaştırılması, bu kaynakların güvenilir, ekonomik ve kaliteli biçimde<br />
ekonomiye kazandırılması, kaynak çeşitliliğinin artırılması, sera gazı emisyonlarının azaltılması, atıkların<br />
değerlendirilmesi, çevrenin korunması ve bu amaçların gerçekleştirilmesinde ihtiyaç duyulan imalat<br />
sektörünün geliştirilmesidir.“ (Kanun, 5346 Sayılı 2005 Tarihli YEK’in Elektrik Enerjisi Üretiminde<br />
Kullanımına İlişkin Kanun, 2005)
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