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Turkey to Increase Share of Renewables in Electricity to 30 Percent (Daily Sabah)

240 MW of geothermal resources to be added this year

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Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız said that Turkey would add 4,000 megawatts to its electricity production capacity this year, 95 percent of which will be provided through local and renewable resources.

Turkey's installed electricity capacity had reached 69,520 megawatts as of 2014 and the government aims to increase the share of local and renewable sources in electricity production to 30 percent by 2023, he said. The cost of crude oil and natural gas remains the main cause of resource-poor Turkey's perennial current account deficit.

"Hydroelectricity power plants will contribute 1,500 megawatts, wind power plants 800 megawatts, geothermal resources 240 megawatts and bioenergy resources 50 megawatts, to create the planned 4,000 megawatts capacity increase in 2015," Yıldız was quoted as saying in the statement.

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