Turkey's EnerjiSA, an energy group in Sabancı Holding, has announced an agreement with Siemens for the supply of turbine and electricity equipment for its second wind plant project in the Mediterranean province of Mersin, the Dağpazarı Wind Plant.The plant, to be established in the Mut district of the province, will generate around 129 megawatts electricity annually with 13 wind turbines each having 3 megawatts power generation capacity.On average, 1 MW of power can supply electricity to as many as 300 households per year.Selahattin Hakman, Sabancı Holding energy group chairman, said that Enerjisa has accelerated its activities targeting increasing and diversifying its portfolio, and for 2015 the company aims for 5-10 percent of its total established power, which they targeted to increase to 5,000 megawatts by 2015, would be supplied by wind power plants.“We are beginning the construction of our second wind power facility on April and the Dağpazarı Wind Power Plant will begin to generate electricity in 2012.”Enerjisa opened a wind power plant in Turkey's northwestern province of Çanakkale in late February together with its partner Verbund.The 90-megawatt plant is the first of a series of wind turbines EnerjiSA is set to launch in 2011, Sabanci CEO Güler Sabancı told reporters at the time.
