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11 October 2005 - Turkey could soon be integrated into the European electrical system after the continent's grid union, UCTE, began a study to investigate the possible scenarios surrounding the potential expansion.
Supported and financed by the European Commission, the UCTE (Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity) study comes at a time when the political and economic integration of Turkey into the EU is under intensive political debate.
Martin Fuchs, president of UCTE, said: "In the past 50 years, electrical 'enlargements' always pioneered the political and economic integration of Europe."
The results of the UCTE study are expected to be available at the beginning of 2007.
The Turkish power system is currently not set up for synchronous operations with other countries, although it is interconnected to Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
The UCTE believe that Turkey's rapid growth in electricity demand, which has led to almost a doubling of installed generating capacity over the past decade, is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. This could lead to building a total installed generating capacity of as much as 65 000 MW by 2010.
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