Energy Efficiency Strategy Paper 2012-2023

              ENERGY EFFICIENCY STRATEGY PAPER
                                            2012- 2023

       1. PREFACE

       Energy efficiency is a concept which completes and horizontally cuts the national strategical
targets like providing supply security in energy, decreasing the risks due to the import dependence,
making the energy costs sustainable, increasing efficacy of climate change combat and protecting
environment. Nowadays, in which the importance of sustainable development increasingly understood,
the value of the efforts directed to energy efficiency increases at the same rate. In this framework;
enhancing energy efficiency, preventing unconscious usage and dissipation, decreasing energy density
either in sectoral base or in macro level are preferencial and important components of our national
energy policy in all the stages from energy production and transmission to the final consumption.

        In the light of extracted lessons concluded from the evaluated activities executed in the context
of energy efficiency, difficulties encountered in different application points and global affinities in the
energy sector it has been imminent to prepare the road map of Turkish energy efficiency area with a
strategical and dynamical point of view. This strategical document has been prepared for activating
with a collaboration and a participatory approach of public sector and private sector entities and NGOs
and defining a political set supported with result oriented and concreate targets and determining
necessary actions to be made for reaching these targets and also describing the responsibilities of the
entities undertaken during this process. It is proposed to have close collaboration between the public
entities and NGOs which are responsible from the realizations of the activities described in this
document and application of the measures and evaluation of the results, the subjected coordination will
be provided by General Directorate of Renewable Energy in the name of Ministry of Energy and
Natural Resources.


        General Directorate of Renewable Energy shall form comissions, comities and/or working
groups with the collaboration of public, private sector and NGOs for the monitoring and evaluation
studies related to application of this strategy. The strategical purposes, targets and actions defined in
this document will be examined according to the deeply sectoral analyses by Energy Efficiency
Coordination Board at least one time in a year, in the framework of realization rates and new
tendencies, changes will be able to be made in avaliable actions and also new actions will be able to be
defined. The document will be examined and updated quadrennially.

       2. SITUATION ANALYSES

        Turkey‟s primary energy density, which means consumed amount of energy to create one unit
of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), have been decreased in the rate %0,24 in the year 2008 according
to the value in the year 1998 according to the year 1998 GDP series with US Dollar costs in the year

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2000 and it is greeted that this decrease tendency increased much more in last years with the effect of
radical conversion movement experienced in energy effciency area after 2007. On the other hand it is
seen an increase of %1,83 in yearly basis in our country‟s electrical energy density in 1998-2008
term according to year 1998 GDP series with US Dollar costs in the year 2000. This situation
introduces that in a means big part of electrical energy consumption have resulted from expense out of
production and the necessary studies directed to decreasing electrical energy request have to be minded
in development of measures related to energy efficiency.