EGEMEN SULUKAN

A Country-Based Assessment of the Relationship between Economic Growth and Energy 

Abstract

Energy is the major input nearly in every process in national economies. Related literature denotes that the correlation between the economic growth and energy consumption level is decoupled in the industrialized countries, according to recent empirical analyses. The aim of this study is to indicate the correlation between gross domestic product, primary energy production, primary energy consumption in terms of Pearson correlation coefficients for selected nine countries, viz. UK, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Canada, and Turkey, based on the open-source data obtained from the United States Energy Information Administration and World Bank.

The results show that the correlation between these three main indicators are highly interrelated in Turkey, Canada and Greece; while the results differ for Spain, Italy, France, Japan, Germany and UK in the same scope.

Biography

Egemen SULUKAN was born in Antakya, Turkey in 1976. Graduated from Turkish Naval Academy, BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, Istanbul, Turkey; from Marmara University, MSc in Mechanical Engineering in 2004 and PhD in 2010, respectively.

Worked on marine engineering operation on board in Turkish Coast Guard and Navy. Dr. Sulukan is currently working as a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Department in Turkish Naval Academy.

Dr. Sulukan is specialized on marine propulsion, wind turbine technologies, energy technology system analysis and energy modeling. He teaches thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermal system design, ship energy system analysis & modelling and  energy decision support tools in Turkish Naval Academy and Marmara University.