Türkiye is striving to increase the installed capacity of solar and wind energy to 120 thousand megavatts by 2035. This was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an event dedicated to investing in the sphere of renewable energy.
President Erdogan noted that ensuring the safety of energy supplies has become a matter of survival for almost every state.
“ensuring the safety of supplies, energy diplomacy, diversification of resources began to be considered not only as technical issues, but also as issues directly related to national security,” he said.
The Turkish leader also declared the impossibility of “interpreting the escalation of tension in many parts of the world, from Africa to Asia, from the Middle East to Latin America, separately from the energy race”.
“Our goal is to reduce imports, facilitate our electricity accounts and ultimately make Turkey a net exporter of resources and technologies,” he stressed.
The President also noted the importance of opening new deposits in the Black Sea and the Gabar region, which changed the realities in Turkey.
“We brought our country to a new level thanks to the project of the Akkhoy nuclear power plant, he continued.
Akkui NPP – the first nuclear power plant under construction in the Turkish province of Mersin. The Akkhoy NPP project consists of four power units with the reactors of Russian design of the Generation 3+. The power of each power unit will be 1200 MW.
The Turkish leader also attracted attention to Turkey’s desire to increase the installed capacity of sunny and wind energy to 120 thousand megavatts by 2035
The Turkish leader also attracted attention to the fact that all preparations associated with the process of issuing permits for the use of wind and solar energy have ended in the country. We expect to simplify the relevant standards and consider them in parliament as soon as possible, he added.