| Abstract |
Power production from geothermal resources in Turkey has increased significantly within last ten years. The first geothermal drilling in Turkey was carried out in 1963. Then, the Kızıldere field was discovered in 1968. The first geothermal power plant, Kızıldere-I was installed at 1983 and the first private geothermal power plant, Dora-I started to generating of electricity at 2006. Although, there were just two power plants and total 25 MWe installed capacity at the beginning of the 2007, according to EMRA (Energy Market Regulatory Authority) 2018 year-end data, geothermal based power production projects have reached a 1347 MWe installed capacity. In addition, 8 new power plants have been under construction with total installed capacity of 310 MWe. Geothermal power plants are operated as base-load power plants and therefore, sustainable power production is the most important issue for these type of plants. Sustainable power production of the geothermal power plants is dependent upon not only the geothermal reservoir conditions, but also operating conditions and monitoring of power plants. In this study, the importance of geothermal power plant monitoring is emphasized and the effects of monitoring and operating conditions of geothermal power plants on sustainable power production during the plant life are explained. Moreover, in order to identify the reasons of performance failures for not reaching full capacity production level of the plants, their operating parameters are continuously followed, and their continues performance is calculated and monitored. By this way, performance losses are diagnosed whether they are attributable to the plant or the resource. Then, several examples are presented. |