Türkiye Electricity Review 2025

The Türkiye Electricity Review 2025 by Ember analyzes Türkiye's electricity generation and consumption in 2024, highlighting a historic shift where wind and solar power permanently overtook domestic coal generation. While solar power saw record growth, the report notes that renewable deployment is still being outpaced by rising electricity demand, which is driven largely by record high temperatures and cooling needs.

• In 2024, wind and solar power permanently overtook domestic coal in electricity generation, surpassing domestic coal's historic peak of 53 TWh recorded in 2019. Wind and solar generated a combined 62 TWh in 2024, while domestic coal generated 47 TWh.
• Solar electricity generation experienced record growth in 2024, increasing by 39% year-on-year to add 7.3 TWh. This growth pushed solar's share of total electricity generation to 7.5%, up from 5.7% in 2023, with installed solar capacity reaching 19.8 GW by the end of 2024.
• Türkiye has become the country with the highest absolute coal-fired electricity generation in Europe, reaching 122 TWh in 2024. This surpasses Germany (104 TWh) and Poland (91 TWh), as coal generation declined across the European Union.
• The overall share of fossil fuels in Türkiye's electricity mix fell to 55% in 2024, the lowest level since 1993. This decline was primarily driven by a drop in gas power, which reached a share of 18.5%, despite a slight increase in absolute coal generation (+4 TWh).
• Electricity demand in Türkiye rose by 5.5% (+18 TWh) in 2024 to a record 342 TWh, largely due to record high temperatures in June and July increasing cooling needs. However, renewable additions are not keeping pace with this growth; over the last five years, demand increased by 42 TWh while wind and solar added 31 TWh.
• Türkiye's 2035 targets aim to quadruple wind and solar capacity from 32 GW in 2024 to 120 GW. If achieved, the share of wind and solar could reach 49% of electricity generation, potentially reducing the fossil fuel share to below 20%.
• Hydroelectricity generation reached 75 TWh in 2024, the third highest year on record, despite a drought that severely impacted run-of-river plants. The increase was driven by dammed hydro output, which rose by 29% as plants utilized stored water reserves.

APA

Alparslan, U. (2025). Türkiye Electricity Review 2025. Ember. https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/03/Turkiye-Electricity-Review-2025_11032025.pdf

Chicago

Alparslan, Ufuk. Türkiye Electricity Review 2025. Ember, 2025. https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/03/Turkiye-Electricity-Review-2025_11032025.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{alparslan2025trkiye, author = {Alparslan, Ufuk}, title = {{Türkiye Electricity Review 2025}}, institution = {Ember}, year = {2025}, month = apr, url = {https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/03/Turkiye-Electricity-Review-2025_11032025.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }