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| (Courtesy CIA.gov) |
Turkey has already superseded its 2023 target for geothermal installed capacity which prompted a revision up of the 2030 target to 4,000 MW, General Directorate of Renewable Energy (YEGM) chief said on Wednesday.
Speaking at the opening session of Geothermal Turkey Workshop and Congress, held in Ankara, Oguz Can, the general manager of the YEGM, said that Turkey had a geothermal target for 2023 of 1,000 MW of installed capacity which has already been achieved.
"We, as the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, think that geothermal energy is a sector in which strategic and important developments need to continue,” Can explain.
He also added that in terms of capacity, the introduction and creation of new areas should be carried out systematically.
Can recommended that geothermal energy be used not only for electricity production but expanded out for the use in the agricultural sector.