 Hydro Energy in Turkey
For more information regarding potential investment opportunities in the Turkish energy market, a law firm should be consulted.
 There is about 128 billion kWh per year in hydropower potential in Turkey. About 35 per cent of hydropower potential is used to generate electricity and hydropower plants with an installed capacity of 11 billion kWh/year are under construction. Many private companies are developing small and medium size hydropower projects.
Turkey has an economic capacity of 128 billion kWh per year hydroelectric energy potential. However, Turkey is using 36% of this capacity, currently generating 46 billion kWh per year electricity from hydroelectric power plants. Another 11 billion kWh per year capacity is under construction by the private and the public sector.
Especially Black Sea region is rich in terms of rivers and altitude. Most of Black sea region which are hilly, it can be possible to develop relatively higher heads without expensive civil engineering works, so that relatively smaller flows are required to develop for the desired power. In these cases, it may be possible to construct a relatively simple diversion structure and to obtain the highest drop by diverting flows at the top of a waterfall. There are intensive studies to improve the small and large hydropower development in Turkey.
EMRA is constantly evaluates applications before issuing licenses.
The Energy Market Regulatory Agency (EMRA) has license fee exemption for renewable energy investors and Turkish Electricity Trading Company, TETAS, can provide buying guarantees to renewable energy companies. Renewable energy will play an important role as Turkey's preparations for accession to the European Union is underway.
Turkey's geography, a rectangular plateau peninsula surrounded on three sides by seas, is highly conducive to hydroelectric power generation; Turkey has about 1% of the total world hydroelectric potential. There are many rivers in Turkey and five separate watersheds. The Persian Gulf watershed in eastern Turkey includes the Tigris River (known in Turkey as the Dicle River) and the Euphrates River (known in Turkey as the Firat River), which flow southwest into Iraq and eventually merge and empty into the Bay of Basra at the northern end of the Persian Gulf. The Aras/Caspian watershed in eastern Turkey includes the Aras River, which flows eastward and whose waters eventually empty into the Caspian Sea. The Black Sea watershed covers much of northern Turkey, and includes Turkey's longest river, the Kizilirmak. The Mediterranean watershed covers much of southwestern Turkey, where rivers either flow south to the Mediterranean Sea or west to the Aegean Sea. The fifth watershed covers the region around the Marmara Sea, which includes several smaller rivers. A map of the major rivers of Turkey is shown below.
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