Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Measures for Host Communities In Turkey with SUTP Project Rooftop Solar Power Plant Putting into Use Ceremony was held in Gaziantep on 22 September
Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Measures for Host Communities In Turkey with SUTP Project Rooftop Solar Power Plant Putting into Use Ceremony held on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, in the garden of Gaziantep Mennan Usta Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School. TGaziantep Governor Davut GÜL, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Fatma ŞAHİN, General Manager of Construction and Real Estate Umut GÜR, Head of Construction Works Fatih Mehmet ORUÇ, Head of Facility for Refugees in Turkey of EU Delegation to Turkey Libor CHLAD, Head of Financial Cooperation of the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, Ambassador Undersecretary Andrê E. LYS, Gaziantep Deputies Mehmet ERDOĞAN and Ali Muhittin TAŞDOĞAN, Director, Southeastern Europe and Turkey, KfW, Klaus MÜLLER, Gaziantep Provincial Director of National Education Yasin TEPE, Representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Representatives of Gaziantep Provincial Directorate of National Education, EPDK, TEDAŞ and TEİAŞ were attended to the ceremony.
“We will meet the electricity needs of 555 equivalent schools in total with the 20 megawatt installed power we have achieved with our land and roof solar power plants investment.”
Umut GÜR, General Manager of Construction and Real Estate of the Ministry of National Education, who made the opening speeches, started his speech by emphasizing the importance of meeting the energy needed for our schools with sustainable resources. Mentioning that school roofs are very efficient in terms of solar energy, GÜR said that with the creation of a total of 6 Megawatts of installed power on 77 roofs in 51 schools, the electricity needs of 163 equivalent schools will be met.
Umut GÜR continued his words as follows: “With land solar power plants, which is another component of our project, we are establishing two large energy production facilities with a total power of 14 Megawatts in Gaziantep and Adıyaman provinces. When our land solar power plants are commissioned, we will have established Turkey’s 16th largest solar power plant. These power plants also hold the title of the largest land solar power plant built with direct public investment.
We attach great importance to prioritizing the values of this geography in our work. We named our field solar power plant in Nizip, Ibn al-Haytham, a pioneering physicist and pioneer of modern optics. Similarly, we named our power plants in Adıyaman as Biruni, who is famous for his work in astronomy and mathematics, and Harezmi, who is the pioneer of algebra and algorithm and the first person to explain the number zero.
We will meet the electricity needs of 555 equivalent schools in total with the 20 megawatt installed power we have achieved with our land and roof solar power plants investment. 420 thousand students will directly benefit from our investments.”
Referring to the energy efficiency component of the project, Construction and Real Estate General Manager Umut GÜR stated that comprehensive energy efficiency transformation and renovation works were carried out in 41 schools selected according to many parameters among 134 schools. And he stated that the energy efficiency performance of these schools will be improved by 25% and their energy efficiency scores will be increased from F to C level.
Andre LYS, who started his speech by stating that education is a priority for the EU, said; “Education should be provided according to everyone’s capacity and situation. We are building more than 400 schools in Turkey. Environmental protection is one of the most important investments to be made in our future. Today, education merges with the environment. I would like to thank everyone for the contributions of the schools to the environment.”
Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Fatma ŞAHİN stated that this project is a great mental transformation. Emphasizing that humanity should respect the environment, she said that the situation we are in today, epidemics, global warming is due to our inability to use the world well. Saying, “If we do not take the necessary measures today, we will not have a world tomorrow,” Major ŞAHİN emphasized the necessity of implementing environmentally sensitive systems urgently.
Speaking at the ceremony, Governor Davut GÜL; “Gaziantep received a lot of immigration from inside and outside. We will remove the burden of this from the city’s agenda by holding everyone, especially our friends in the EU, by one end. Energy is increasing gradually, especially with the use of schools outside of working hours. Meeting this deficit from renewable energy is very valuable in terms of economy and environment. I am thanking the entire protocol for their participation. I wish this power plant brings good luck.” said.
After the protocol speeches and the videographic display of the project, Fatih Mehmet ORUÇ, Head of Construction Works and Projects Director, explained Field Solar Power plants investments to the protocol members through models and presentations. The ceremony ended after the visits to the workshops in the school.
Proje Hakkında:
Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Measures for Host Communities In Turkey with SUTP Project is implemented by the Ministry of National Education, General Directorate of Construction Real Estate with the Financial Support of the European Union through KfW.
With the project, it is aimed to provide the needed resource in a sustainable manner with renewable energy and energy efficiency works as a result of the increasing demand for education due to migration after the Syrian crisis, and to use the resource to be created with savings for new education investments. The project is carried out in 11 provinces, 92 schools and 2 fileds with a total budget of 40 million Euros.
With the Renewable Energy investments, a total of 6 MegaWatt Rooftop Solar Power Plants and a total of 14 MegaWatt Field Solar Power Plants are installed on 2 fields and on the roofs of 51 schools. Thus, a total installed power of 20 Megawatts will be reached. Thanks to these investments, the electricity needs of 555 equivalent schools and 420,000 students will be met, and a total of 24,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will be prevented.
With the energy efficiency works, the energy efficiency performance of 41 schools selected among 134 schools will be increased. Thanks to energy efficiency efforts, approximately 1 million kWh of electrical energy and approximately 6.5 million kWh of heating energy will be saved, and 4,600 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will be prevented. In this way, an annual average of 25% will be saved in our schools and the energy identity certificate grades will be increased to at least C.