Rapid climate change problem and wind energy investments for Turkey

摘要

The aim of this study is that, giving theoretical information about climate change, making some explanation about global trend of wind energy market and developments of Turkish wind energy market finally giving some information about wind energy regulations in Germany. Energy is one of the main sources of economical and social developments. Energy demand is increasing day by day both global and national scale of many countries. Current energy paradigm is based on fossil fuels but fossil energy sources decrease day by day and go through to death point. While this process, fossil sources constitute the main source of green house gas and fast climate change. Today, at this point usage and spread of renewable energy sources is taking place on the agenda of many countries. Wind energy systems have high learning curve value (92%) and when making comparison between wind energy and other renewable energy systems according to cost and efficiency parameter in that reason wind energy systems are more preferable. At the end of the 2008, global installed wind power was reached to 121000 MW and 158 million tones carbon dioxide emission was prevented with this installed power. According to Turkish Met office studies, mean temperature of Turkey has growing trend. Mean temperature of Turkey could be increase between 5 ℃ and 6 ℃ when comparing between 1961-1990 and 2071-2100 period. Energy production paradigm of Turkey is based on thermal conventional technology. In that reason CO_2 emission level was increased 74.4% between 1990 and 2004 in Turkey. This emission growth is a part of mean temperature increasing problem. Turkey wind energy potential is 47849 MW and nearly 62 million tones carbon dioxide emission could be prevented with this potential.