Turkey added 377 megawatts
(MW) of installed capacity to reach 6,483 MW in total wind capacity in the
first half of 2017, according to Turkish Wind Energy Association's (TUREB)
report released on Monday.
In first half of the year,
more than 440 thousand households began to receive electricity from wind
energy. In total, wind energy provided 7.5 million Turkish homes with
electricity.
According to TUREB, in the
first half year's report, more than 75 percent of wind farms are located in the
Aegean and Marmara regions of Turkey.
The Izmir province in the
Aegean region saw the most installed wind capacity with 1,333 MW, while
Balikesir ranked second with 1,069 MW and Manisa in Western Turkey followed in
third place with 650 MW.
"Turkey has 32 wind
farms under construction with a total of 808 MW," the report read.
Turkey's installed wind
capacity reached 6,106 MW in 2016.
(Anadolu Agency)