Nilgun Side Kurtcu
R&D Projects and Collaborations Manager
Zorlu Enerji
İstanbul, Türkiye
Zorlu Enerji is a Türkiye-based renewable energy company with over 25 years of experience and a total installed capacity of 484.2 MW across geothermal, hydropower, wind, and solar energy.
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Zorlu Enerji operates a diversified portfolio that includes four geothermal power plants (305 MWe), seven hydroelectric power plants (119 MWe), one wind farm (56.4 MWe), one solar power plant (3.8 MWe).
Zorlu Enerji has been carrying out R&D projects since 2018, and now it has tenongoing funded projects (five Horizon Europe, one Smart, one Eurogia, one EraNet and two Tübitak 1707) and nine completed projects (four Horizon2020, two Horizon Europe, one ITEA, one EraNet-Act, and one Eurogia) in cooperation with more than one hundred partners from twenty different countries. Zorlu also supports the development of the academic literature in its field by sharing project outputs in more than eighteen publications in five years.
Zorlu Enerji is utilizing high capacity production power, qualified human resources, well balanced portfolio, diversity of sources and capability of creating innovative solutions to be a perpetual and leading part of the global energy transformation.