Hydropower is the most important domestic energy source of Turkey. Thus, wise planning
and development of the unused hydropower potential of the country is vital. There are
many hydroelectric power plants under planning stage in our country. Altiparmak HEPP is
one of them. General Directorate of Electrical Power Resources Survey and Development
Administration (EIE) and ANC Enerji conducted two separate feasibility studies for
Altiparmak HEPP in 2001 and 2009, respectively. Traditionally, the energy income
calculations for HEPPs are based on DSI or EIE Methods in Turkey. Both of these methods
evaluate the firm and the secondary energy generations separately. Besides they use fixed
prices for these two types of energies. However, hourly electricity prices are used for
electricity trading in Turkey. A detailed economic analysis of Altiparmak HEPP is conducted
in this study. The economic analysis included various factors, such as tailwater level change,
varying operating levels for different seasons and precipitation and evaporation amounts
which are not conventionally included in feasibility studies. Moreover, the energy income
calculations are conducted with four different methods, the DSI Method, the EIE Method,
the ANC Method and the Variable Price Method (VPM). The VPM is developed in this study
and it allows utilization of hourly electricity prices in calculating energy income of the HEPP.
To shed some light on how hourly electricity prices develop, this thesis includes a chapter
on the electricity market which explains the details of electricity trading in our country after
the Electricity Market Balancing and Settlement Regulation became active in 2009.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613748/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 October 2011 |
| Creators | Ak, Mumtaz |
| Contributors | Kentel, Elcin |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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