20 September 2010, by Middle East wind energy editor H. Erkoc
Turkish wind energy developers who have been expecting to be granted their generation licences in the last quarter of 2010 since November 2007 have been struggling with a new problem lately.
The projects cannot be licensed because they cannot get approval from Turkish General Staff on the grounds that the wind turbines built may interfere with radar and military monitoring systems.
Although it has been stated by several authorities and technical experts that wind turbines do not cause interference with radar systems more than 12 wind farms in western part of Turkey with a total capacity of 460 MW are waiting for their approval letters from General Staff. GS states that they need report of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey – TÜBİTAK regarding the issue and that official request had been sent.
Since wind farm licensing process in Turkey requires positive opinions from all related authorities, developers who cannot get this approval are not able to start construction. Also because of late response time of General Staff to official enquiries of developers makes the situation worse than it should be.
Despite the country’s potential and willingness of both foreign and domestic investors, Turkish wind industry is not able to kick start because of legislative problems. The slow processing times within governmental institutions and offices, lack of precise technical knowledge partly due to the industry’s being relatively new in Turkey is keeping the industry as a toddler and it cannot stand on its feet, which seems to be the same for near future too.
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