“Here in Turkey we are just at the very beginning stages, but very aggressive goals are set for the year 2023. Current installed capacity of wind farms is about 1.6 gigawatts in Turkey, but in 2023; which means only 12 years from now, this is planned to be increased up to 20 gigawatts. This is more than 10 times increase. So wind energy investments are exploding in Turkey.”

“We saw that renewable energy in general was one of the focal points of METU’s vision. Since METU has already established a solar energy research center, we thought wind energy would be a perfect candidate for complementing this effort.”

“We want RÜZGEM to be a national focal point in wind energy. We have already established good relationships with the wind energy industry. There is an effort to establish a national wind energy technology platform and METU Center for Wind Energy will be one of the members of this platform. It is going to be the only wind energy research center in Turkey with this capacity.”

“…this investment is so big that it will boost anyone who is interested to do research here. It is open to all professors and therefore it is going to be a big contribution in terms of academic development of METU in general; in terms of numbers of publications, high quality journal papers and in terms of making an academic research impact in the field of wind energy.”