Wind Energy in Turkey

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Mersin, Turkey

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IntroductionEnergy is a major input for overall socio-

economic development of any society.

The prices of the fossil fuels are steeply increasing.

So renewable energy is expected to play a key role in very near future.

Wind energy is the fastest growing renewable energy type.

Wind turbines are up to the task of producing serious amounts of electricity.

Wind Power Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a

useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electrical power, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships.

Wind power, as an alternative to fossil fuels, is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, produces no greenhouse gas emissions during operation and uses little land.

History of Wind Power Wind power has been used as long as humans have put

sails into the wind.

For more than two millennia wind-powered machines have ground grain and pumped water.

With the development of electric power, wind power found new applications in lighting buildings remote from centrally-generated power.

Throughout the 20th century parallel paths developed small wind plants suitable for farms or residences, and larger utility-scale wind generators that could be connected to electricity grids for remote use of power.

Today wind powered generators operate in every size range between tiny plants for battery charging at isolated residences, up to near-gigawatt sized offshore wind farms that provide electricity to national electrical networks.

How Does It Work?

Advantages of Wind Power• The wind blows day and night, which allows windmills

to produce electricity throughout the day.

• Energy output from a wind turbine will vary as the wind varies, although the most rapid variations will to some extent be compensated for by the inertia of the wind turbine rotor.

• Wind energy is a domestic, renewable source of energy that generates no pollution and has little environmental impact. Up to 95 percent of land used for wind farms can also be used for other profitable activities including ranching, farming and forestry.

• The decreasing cost of wind power and the growing interest in renewable energy sources should ensure that wind power will become a viable energy source worldwide.

Limitations of Wind Power• Power density is very low.

◦ Needs a very large number of wind mills to produce modest amounts of power.

• Cost.

• Environmental costs.◦ material and maintenance costs.◦ Noise, birds and appearance.

• Cannot meet large scale and transportation energy needs.

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