Suloglu Wind Power Plant, Turkey

Steag Rüzgar Süloglu Enerji Üretim ve Ticaret A.S. (Steag) plans to invest into new wind power plant to generate electricity and feed it into the Turkish grid. The wind power plant is planned to be built in City of Edirne, in between of Küçükögünlü, Hacilar and Vaysal vilages.The project consists 20 turbines with 3 MW rated power for each. Having 60 MW installed power in total; the project will generate around 226 GWh electricity annually. Comparing with baseline situation for electricity system of Turkey, this amount of electricity generation will lead around 140,000 tonnes carbondioxide emission reduction per year. In addition to the CO2, the project will reduce SOx and NOx emissions which arise from electricity generation from mainly coal power plants.The project licence has been granted on 16 March 2011 from EMRA. Environmental Impact Assessment studies have completed positively and with this, the critical permissions to start project activity have been completed. Installation of the turbines is expected to start in 2015 and the expected commissioning date of the project is in the Q4 2015. The closest settlement to the project area is village of Hacilar which is 580 m away to