The use of water for electricity generation in Turkey
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2022
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Cappadocia University Press
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
Hydropower mobilizes local resources, is carbon-free, and provides cheap and clean electricity with an impact on the environment that is considerably lower than that of fossil fuels. For many years, water was considered an economic commodity from which to benefit materially, and the utilization of water potential for the generation of electricity was viewed as a step toward development, and hence, the modernization of Turkey. This turned the construction of large dams into one of the focal points of the political agenda and a target of the economic development plans, being considered a remedy to the increasing demand for electricity resulting from rapid industrialization and urbanization. However, Turkey is not a water-rich country. Once considered an abundant natural resource, the per capita freshwater stocks continue to decline due to climate change, while the use of water has increased over the years. To achieve its ultimate desire to become an economically and socially modern country, Turkey adopted several development models and founded a number of state entities that were set the task of exploiting the nation’s energy resources, including its hydropower potential, in the earliest days of the Republic. Later in the liberal period of the 2000s, new regulations accelerated the construction of hydropower plants (HPP) by private entrepreneurs, although not without stirring up tensions between the local people and environmentalists on one side and entrepreneurs and official bodies on the other.
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hydropower in Turkey, hydroelectricity generation, economic development programs, renewable energy, liberalization, feed-in tariff
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Water, Energy and Environment in Eurasia
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Tüney, C. (2022). The Use of Water for Electricity Generation in Turkey. In O. F. Tanrısever & H. B. Sakal (Eds.), Water, Energy and Environment in Eurasia (1st ed., pp. 81–102). Cappadocia University Press.
