Renewable energy: In the context of Turkey's energy policy with special reference to the EU policies

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Marmara Üniversitesi, Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, Avrupa Birliği Siyaseti ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Anabilim Dalı (İngilizce), Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2011

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: SELMA ŞEKERCİOĞLU

Danışman: Mustafa Yılmaz

Özet:

Renewable energy has started to gain importance after the 1970?s in parallel with the developments in the World system. But the construction of renewable energy policies both in the EU and Turkey has accelerated after the millennium. In order to examine Turkey?s renewable energy policy in comparison with the EU policies, it is necessary to look at their historical processes. In this historical process it has been seen that there were some problems about decision making styles. For Turkey the difficulties arise from the fiscal and technical problems whilst in the EU the problems were related with the Union structure. After 2000?s there was a good progress in renewable energy policies but for Turkey the existing policies are not sufficient enough to have an efficient strategy. Moreover the existing support mechanisms are not enough to urge the renewable energy investments. There is a need for constructing a well designed and comprehensive energy policy with the involvement of different actors from different categories. From this framework, it is a necessity to assess Turkey?s renewable energy policy with its future projection perspective.Keywords: Renewable energy policy, the EU, Turkey