Articles & Analysis | Water world: Hydroelectric power plants are a major renewable energy source from The Report: Turkey 2012
Hydroelectricity is the cornerstone of Turkey’s goal to boost renewable energy supply, but building thousands of dams comes at an environmental cost. Retired imam Kazım Delal avoids visits to his beloved Küçükcayır, the village where he grew up and that his family has called home for five generations. Located in the lush Salarha Valley in the...
Articles & Analysis | So crazy it just might work: A massive canal may one day reshape Istanbul from The Report: Turkey 2012
After two years of secret planning, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2011 revealed his “crazy project”: digging a 50-km-long, 150-metre-wide canal from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara. The canal would turn half of Istanbul, a city of some 16m-18m residents, into an island and rival the engineering feats at Suez and Panama.
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Rövnag Abdullayev, President and CEO, SOCAR from The Report: Turkey 2012
How has SOCAR’s Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) affected the competition to transport Azerbaijani natural gas to Europe?
Articles & Analysis | Push for renewables: Turning to wind, sun and water to enhance energy security and protect the environment from The Report: Turkey 2012
The world’s first hybrid combined-cycle power plant, developed by General Electric and California-based eSolar, will not be built in the US or Europe. Instead, MetCap Energy Investments is launching the groundbreaking €450m project in the central Turkish province of Karaman. Revolutionary technology that combines natural gas with wind and solar...