Turkish Aegean City Becomes Production Base Of Wind Turbine Blades
(MENAFN- AzerNews) Turkish Aegean city Izmir, which has the highest installed
capacity in wind energy within the country, has become the
production base of turbine blades, which play an essential role in
converting wind into energy, Azernews reports, citing Anadolu
Agency.
The energy crisis, emerging after the bottleneck in the supply
of resources or price increases in the world, raises the value of
domestic energy resources, and global climate change requires clean
and renewable energy production.
In Türkiye, the share of wind energy in the installed electric
power has approached 11% thanks to the investments.
The country's wind energy capacity exceeds 11,400 megawatts,
consisting of power plants in 47 provinces.
Izmir has installed a power of 1754.9 megawatts in wind
energy.
There are four turbine blade production facilities within three
companies in Izmir, and these facilities provide direct employment
for over 6,000 people this year.
The production provides a turnover of over $700 million and an
export of more than $500 million.
Approximately 4,000 blades are produced annually in Izmir, while
more than 75% of the production is exported.
Alper Kalayci, the chair of the Energy Industrialists and
Business Association, said Izmir exports turbine blades all around
the world, excluding China.
There is no other city in the world with as much employment and
export as Izmir, neither on the European side nor on the American
side, he added.
Gokhan Serdar, the senior deputy chairman responsible for the
EMEA region of TPI Composites, said there are three reasons for
becoming a production base in this field; wind, ports and human
resource.
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