Electric industry



Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Activities of liberalization in Azerbaijani electricity market

A representative group of 50, including MPs (member of parliament), high level bureaucrats from The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and EPDK (Energy Market Regulatory Authority – EMRA), businessmen, university lecturers, trade union leaders visited Azerbaijan to participate “Liberalization in Azerbaijan and Electricity Distribution Models Program”, which is organized by Barmek Azerbaijan Electricity Network.The activities took place on 9th – 11th September 2005 and host ministers, MPs, high level bureaucrats and Azerbaijani media participated . And Kaynak Elektrik was the only industrial magazine to participate those activities.

VİKO launches home automation with “Smart Life”

Having experienced in the production electrical switches, power sockets and lighting fixtures for 25 years, VİKO launches home automation systems business in cooperation with the Belgian company, NİKO N.V. The products to be marketed under the brand name of “Smart Life” by VİKO Elektronik ve Teknolojik Çözümler San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. The system offers solutions with an operating device to control the house both internally and externally, said Mr. Zafer Durmaz, The Project Leader to Smart Life.

Kerim Ramazanov champions state-aided privatization in production

Mr. Ersin Kaya, editor-in-chief to Kaynak Elektrik, interviewed with Mr. Kerim Ramazanov, Energy Advisor to Economic Development Minister, who is also a member of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences and leading university lecturer in energy engineering area. They had long-run programs of 5 years–20 years during the time of USSR, said Mr. Ramazanov. Now they had set up their own programs mathcing the needs of Azerbaijani society, which covered a traditional energy resources (oil, gas etc) program until 2015 and renewable energy resources program (wind and solar energy). They had an established capacity of 5000 MW, emphasized Ramazanov. And 3500 – 3600 MW of that capacity is efficiently used, added Ramazanov. Finally, production has to be under state control whereas transmission has to be a different branch, concluded Ramazanov.

Interview with Azerbaijani Economical Development Minister

Mr. Ferhad Aliyev, Azerbaijani Minister of Economical Development in charge of Privatization, hosted the delegation, including MPs, high level bureaucrats, media and our magazine. Mr. Aliyev replied various questions of our magazine ranging from Azerbaijan’s economical status, oil’s place in Azerbaijani economy, income distribution, problems passing from socialism to capitalism. National income increased 8–10 per cent annually and would become USD 1100 by this year, said Mr. Aliyev. And England, the USA, France and Turkey were the largest investors countries in Azerbaijan, explained Aliyev. As oil excluded, Turkey was no 1 investor in Azerbaijan, added Aliyev. In addition, the biggest problem passing from socialism to capitalism was the accordance of the new order and it was difficult for the old generation to accept the new economical system, emphasized Aliyev.






Autoproducers: No 1 market players or troublemakers? (Tuncay Derman)

In this article, Mr. Tuncay Derman analyses the role autoproducers in the Turkish electricity business. First Mr. Derman gives a description of autoproducer and autoproducer group in the Turkish legislations. Then he provides background information for autoproduction industry in Turkey in parallel with the development in the Turkish business circles, which became popular to produce their own energy for their plants. Autoproducers were the unique competitive market players in electricity business, according to Derman. So they should be embraced by the government and other state apparatus, instead of treating them as troublemakers.

On the development of the nuclear energy in Turkey (F. Behçet Yücel)


In this text, Mr. F.Behçet Yücel handles the installation of nuclear power station in accordance with a report published by TEİAŞ (Turkey Electricity Transmission Inc). In this report, TEİAŞ supplies two scenarios for the electricity demand of Turkey, covering the years 2005–2020. It is scheduled to set up 3 nuclear power stations on 2012, 2014 and 2015 with a total capacity of 1500 MW, according to the those scenarios. Then Mr. Derman provides information on the projects developed for the nuclear power stations in Turkey. So there was chosen three locations in different regions of Turkey, including Marmara Ereğlisi, Sinop and Akkuyu (in Mersin). And Akkuyu became the final place for the set up of that nuclear power station in

If economical positon and or human resources were not satisfactory to start up such projects, it would be hardly impossible to achieve, concluded Mr. Yücel.

Feeding and command at electrical motors (Prof. Dr. İlhami Çetin)

In this article Mr. Prof.Dr İlhami Çetin mentions five qualities of the electrical motors: Feeding equipment, contactors, fuses, thermo double-mine commutators, thermo protection with cold conductor.

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