Monitoring and analyzing the sustainability performance of a renewable energy investment with a case study-Tugra HEPP

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2023-5-05

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Kalemci, İsmail

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To reach the sustainable development idea, the energy usage and services are in a critical position that most of the announced "Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs) are somehow related to energy services, especially renewables. But SDGs alone are not sufficient for sustainable development and investment, even in the hydroelectric source, since wrong and erroneous decisions taken at the project stages undermine other potential investments. This thesis aims to encourage the realization of the hydroelectric potential in Turkey, which is following the SDGs, with the help of an evaluation methodology to be made to hydroelectrical power plant (HEPP) investments using the concept of "monitoring and analyzing the sustainability performance."For this purpose, a case study is conducted in the Tuğra HEPP Project in the Black Sea Region among the guidelines determined in the "Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol" HSAP a total of four titles, one for each reflecting the social, economic, environmental, and technical perspectives. Consequently, by such a comprehensive sustainability analysis specific to the investment, it is realized that problems in these types of investments can be identified before they arise, or solutions to existing problems can be found. Additionally, this analysis allows new investments using the experiences gained from similar former ones. The study is concluded with a new legal act offer for Turkey, which has limited financial resources, deep biodiversity, and a versatile social structure in terms of demographics, to be able to evaluate the new investments to be made as sustainable as possible.

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Hydropower, Sustainability, HSAP, SDG

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103176

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis