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giugno 20, 2016 - EWT

EWT installs its first wind turbine in Turkey

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Levent, Istanbul Turkey – Today, Emergya Wind Technologies (EWT), the world’s leading distributed #energy turbine provider in the sub-megawatt segment, has installed a DIRECTWIND54-900kW turbine at Yaşar Gida, a machine construction and agricultural business, in Ipsala Turkey. The Yaşar Gida plant is now benefitting from the cost-effective #energy solutions provided by #ewt.

Yaşar Gida (part of Yaşar Group) is a machine manufacturer to agricultural industry, which also has rice processing plant, which is mainly used as an R&D center for machines they manufacture and export to 30 countries worldwide. The factory is located in Ipsala, northwest of Istanbul near the border with Greece. The plant machinery processes 150 tons of rice per day; It is a high #energy consuming business. The DIRECTWIND54-900kW turbine is directly connected to the plant’s electrical network in order to reduce the owner’s reliance on electricity from the national grid and to offset his current #energy costs.


EWT’s CEO Mark Jones: “We are delighted to install the first of many turbines in Turkey, building on the trust of our client, Yaşar Gida, and the proven global strength of our product as the best in class localized wind turbine. We believe that #ewt will be able to meet the #energy needs of Yaşar Gida for many years to come and, similarly, supply the #energy needs of many other Turkish companies with our proven technology, commercial and service support”.

Yaşar Makina CEO Mustafa Polatcan: “Our innovative machine building business was a perfect fit to EWT’s distributed power strategy. We are proud of increasing volume of trade between Turkey and the Netherlands. We export our machines to 30 countries and we know this single turbine project is just a start to our cooperation with #ewt. We are very happy with the support we received from #ewt since the beginning of the project. We are aware of importance of every contribution to Turkish economy by using renewable #energy instead of expensive fossil fuels”.

About EWT
EWT is a leading wind turbine supplier for distributed wind #energy applications. With turbines generating electricity for customers from Alaska, mainland US, across Europe and through to Asia, #ewt represents the acknowledged market leader in localised wind generation. Awarded the Bloomberg New #energy Pioneer prize in 2016, #ewt offers a highly efficient product range based on direct drive technology with a high yield, low cost of #energy and high quality availability levels. The company focuses on maximizing local generation and minimizing cost of #energy from its turbine, thereby providing a wide range of #energy consumers and other self generators with the best wind #energy generation solution.