27 Şubat 2011 Pazar

Turkey's Sabancı launches wind-turbine facility with Verbund


Turkey's EnerjiSA, an energy group in Sabancı Holding, and its partner company Verbund on Saturday inaugurated a wind power plant in Turkey's northwestern province of Çanakkale.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."We are targeting to achieve 300 megawatts in wind power and soon we will launch a 100-150 megawatt project. We have confidence in Turkey's competitive energy market," Sabancı said.Austrian Verbund's CEO Johann Sereinig said the Verbund-Sabancı partnership had made the biggest amount of investment in Turkey with over 2.4 billion euros."Such powerful investments can not be made if it was not for Turkey's perfect opportunities for investment," he said.