Orhun Selcuk

• Master of Public Administration
• Energy Analyst at Mantr Consulting Ltd

In this paper we investigate the system integration costs for wind and river type hydropower generation in the Turkish electricity market, which mainly covers system imbalance costs, congestion management costs and ancillary services costs. The paper also shows that reflecting the imbalance costs to the renewable generators themselves reduced their...

The environmental concerns and dependency on gas imports push Turkish policy makers to find ways of increasing the share of renewable sources in electricity generation. Providing incentives for renewable energy in the form of feed-in-tariffs is one of the measures to achieve this goal. Basing on the data of Turkish electricity market operator, we q...

Turkey has changed the essentials of its energy markets more than a decade ago. It was mainly a transition from a state-led model to a free-market one. Although some levels of progress is observable; security of supply, particularly in times of short term supply disruption had not been widely tested. Harsh winter conditions set a litmus test for Tu...

In this report, the security of Turkey’s supply problem has been examined and a solution has been proposed considering the basic problems of the country. In this context, reliability option contracts mechanism that addresses all three of these concerns have been proposed. The contracts give the right but not the obligation to buy electricity. In re...