AzerNews: How to save Turkey’s energy security?

No matter how much Turkey tries, today it can’t get rid of its energy dependence.

The country’s problem lies in that it imports about 90 percent of its consumed coal, 93 percent of its oil and nearly 97 percent of its natural gas.  Turkey’s power plants generate 47 percent of the electricity using the natural gas it imports, mainly coming from Russia, while about 28 percent of the electricity is produced using the local and imported coal. 

Meanwhile, the water power plants produce only 18 percent of the electricity needed, and the remaining 7 percent is generated by its wind power plants.  Turkey also imports electricity from Bulgaria, Greece, the Czech Republic and Iran. As Turkey’s minister of energy and natural resources, Taner Yildiz, said earlier, if necessary, Turkey could import electricity from Georgia.

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