Wind energy

Wind power in Turkey is gradually expanding in capacity, mainly in the Aegean and Marmara regions. Turkey has about 3 GW of installed capacity. The Turkish government has a target of increasing Turkey's wind capacity 20 times by 2020. 

The technical wind energy potential is estimated to be about 114 GW of capacity in regions where the wind speed is higher than 7.0 meters above the ground at 50 meters’ height.

he installed capacity was 51 MW in 2006 and it is increased to the 4,498 MW in 2015. 

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Wind power in Turkey is increasing tremendously but still the desired level of the installed capacity is not reached because the wind potential is very high in Turkey.

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As of 2015, there were 172 wind farms in Turkey, of which 171 were active in production with a total installed capacity of 6.195 GW making out 7.7% of the total installed power capacity of the country. The generated electricity was 15.685 TWh in 2016, which supplied 6% of the total electrical energy consumption.