Turkey's first meeting with the electrical energy had been in the year 1902 by a mini hydraulic power plant, then the power supply services were assumed by foreign enterprises. Following the period after 1923, power and electricity supply services were undertaken by various Turkish state owned utilities set up for this purpose. In 1950s, the production, tranmission and distribution of electricity with the exception of city networks were started to be perfomed by two separate private sector entities in a region constituting a few provinces of Mediterranean coasts. In 1970, depending on the rapid increase of the demand, the monopolization of power and electricty supply was decided, so production, transmission and distribution services-except for the city networks undertaken by the municipalities-of power and electricity supply were given under the control and management of TEK (Turkish Electricity Authority) set up as a monopoly in this field. In 1982, by handing over the city networks too, all services concerning electricity were put under the monopoly of TEK with the exception of which under 2 concessionary companies and autoproducers. However, by the Law No:3096 passed in 1984, the private companies were also given right to involve in production and distribution of electrical energy apart from TEK, and TEK抯 monopoly in this respect was lifted. Thus, the construction of generation plants under Built-Operate-Transfer scheme and transfering the ownership of operational rights of the existing generation and distribution facilities to private sector and the Built-Operate-Transfer scheme were practically implemented in Turkey for the first time. Within this context, the operational rights of Kayseri and of the prvinces in the Anatolian part of Istanbul were transferred to private sector via the concession agreements signed in 1990. In 1993, TEK had been split into two separate companies namely Turkish Electricity Generation Transmission Company (TEA ) responsible for the generation and transmission and Turkish Electricity Distribution Company (TEDA ) responsible for the distribution of electrical energy as per the restructuring programme, so generation, transmission and distribution functions were separated from eachother. By a new Law No:4283 passed in 1997, generation plants were envisaged to be constructed under Built-Own-Operate (BOO) scheme. Within the framework of ongoing restructuring studies, the electricity sector is targetted to turn into an organizational structure composing a National Public Transmission Company responsible for the transmission, a state-owned Generation Company responsible for the generation till the date when the facilities are handed over to private sector, a state owned Distribution Company responsible for the distribution as well as a public central buyer and central seller company to continue with the responsibilites till the formation of a power pool. Within the perspective of the above studies, also a Draft of a new Electricity Market Law regulating the electricity market activities and including the setting up of a regulatory body is in the stage of submission to the Parliament. Thus, a gradual access from public dominant monopolized sytem to private sector dominant competitive approach is brought to final stage. Within the current structural changes, the roles, players and the rules in the electricity sector will result in transforming the sector into a different structure and understanding.
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