{"id":69664,"date":"2013-04-17T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T09:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69664"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:03:51","slug":"turkeys-first-local-solar-tower-built-in-southern-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/17\/turkeys-first-local-solar-tower-built-in-southern-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s first local solar tower built in southern city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish energy company Greenway has completed the construction of Turkey\u2019s first \u201cconcentrated solar power tower plant\u201d (CSP) in the southern province of Mersin, which is located on one of the world\u2019s major Sun Belt areas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69665\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69665\" alt=\"The first local concentrated solar power tower plant built in Turkish southern province of Mersin has a 5 MW of thermal power capacity. Company photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/n_45022_4.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/n_45022_4.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/n_45022_4-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first local concentrated solar power tower plant built in Turkish southern province of Mersin has a 5 MW of thermal power capacity. Company photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The plant, which has been built with an investment of $50 million by Greenway with the support of Turkey\u2019s science watchdog T\u00dcB\u0130TAK and the Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV), generates 5 MW of thermal power, equivalent to the energy requirement of 1,500 houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurkey is located on a major sun belt and is lucky compared to many countries that develop technology in this field,\u201d Co-founder of Greenway and Project Management Director Serdar Erturan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Erturan noted that major world powers had been placing a special focus on solar power plants as a substantial power generation source in response to the increasing energy demand due to rising technological needs.The plant is used as one of the most efficient methods to convert solar power to electricity across the world. While it\u2019s one of its kind in Turkey, it also marks many firsts in the world.<\/p>\n<p>There are similar tower type plants in Spain,\u00a0Israel\u00a0and the U.S., and the Greenway Mersin CSP stands out for its wireless communication system as well as its lego type design, which enables easy transfer, installation and easy access to the site.<\/p>\n<p><b>Competetive price gain<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\nThe plant utilizes only water and solar light, and by focusing solar energy over the tower, it enables reaching high temperatures. Reflective panels consist of unique glass mirrors and system components and energy production processes contain only environment friendly materials. The only output of the system is the high pressure steam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to hybrid and compact systems that lower costs to competitive levels and are not dependent on external sources in technological terms, it is possible to generate energy from renewable energy sources, at high outputs and competitive prices,\u201d Erturan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish energy company Greenway has completed the construction of Turkey\u2019s first \u201cconcentrated solar power tower plant\u201d (CSP) in the southern province of Mersin, which is located on one of the world\u2019s major Sun Belt areas. The plant, which has been built with an investment of $50 million by Greenway with the support of Turkey\u2019s science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[5211,9031,702],"class_list":["post-69664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-solar-farm","tag-ttgv","tag-tubitak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}