This roadmap provides strategic analysis of the offshore wind development potential in Türkiye, considering the opportunities and challenges under different, hypothetical, growth scenarios. It is intended to provide evidence to support the Government of Türkiye in establishing policy, regulations, processes, and infrastructure to enable successful growth of this new industry.
With energy demand expected to continue increasing, Türkiye needs to expand local energy generation to reduce its reliance on imports and the associated foreign exchange burden on its economy. Türkiye has areas with good natural conditions for offshore wind. This offers a new source of domestic renewable energy generation that could contribute to Türkiye’s transition to net-zero carbon by 2053.
The Roadmap recommends 21 actions that mainly focus on actions to be taken in the short term, but some can span over the entire timeframe up to 2050, across the areas of: vision and volume targets; regulatory and policy framework; financial and economic; health and safety; grid and port infrastructure; and supply chain.
