| Abstract |
Being one of the richest countries in geothermal potential, a significant development was achieved in Turkey in geothermal electricity production and direct uses (district, greenhouse heating and thermal tourism) during last five years (2010-2015). Geothermal Law and its regulations accelerated the geothermal activities in Turkey. Especially, the feed in tariff application for electricity production and MTA’s activities boosted this sector. Since 1960’s, 225 geothermal fields have been discovered in Turkey. Geothermal direct-use applications have reached 2886,3 MWt geothermal heating including district heating (805 MWt), nearly 3 million m2 greenhouse heating (612 MWt, thermal facilities, hotels etc heating 420 MWt, balneological use (1005 MWt) and heat pump applications (42,8 MWt). Geothermal electricity production has reached 388 MWe (total 18 geothermal power plants). A liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice production factory is integrated to the Kizildere geothermal power plant. Geothermal electricity production will be about 388 MWe (Aydin-Germencik, Aydin-Salavatli, Denizli-Kizildere, Aydin-Hidirbeyli, Canakkale-Tuzla, Aydýn-Pamukören, Aydin-Gumuskoy and others) in December 2014.The geothermal power plants install capacity under construction is 165 MWe (Table 1). With the existing geothermal wells and spring discharge water, the proven geothermal heat capacity calculated by MTA is totally 5046 MWt (exhaust temperature is assumed to be 35°C). Most of the development has been achieved in electricity production and balneological utilizations in the last 5 years in Turkey. A total of 750 MWe power production and 4000 MWt space heating is targeted for the year 2018 (TR Ministry of Development, 10th Development Plan 2014-2018). Thermal Facilities heating and balneological use has gained speed especially in the last 2 years in Turkey. The issued geothermal law contributed to increase the geothermal electricity production investments within Turkish private sector. |