TAMER TURNA

The Importance of Power Plant Flexibility, High Efficiency and a solid transmission grid in the Power Market  -Value Expectations of High Standard Digital Solutions and Their Importance in Challenging Market Environments-

Abstract

The transformation towards a renewables dominated power generation market is a primarily by the European society driven social and political will, that shapes the entire region severely and impacts the world. Volatile generators are encouraged to enlarge their market share, which creates new market opportunities, especially for those which have the ability to adapt fats to the new conditions with relevant technologies that can compile the missing part of the chain. Impacted by many influencers of the new market set up, flexibility has become Key. The basic solution formula is very simple; VOLATILITY + FLEXIBILITY  =  STABILITY. Flexible power generators are primarily; fast ramp up and ramp down operating gas combined cycle power plants, flexible designed ultra-supercritical steam parameters based cleaner coal thermal power plants and storage technology based systems and plants. The Industry 4.0 era and its new technologies allow us further progress of the entire power system by introducing modern digital solutions which fulfill ‘Preventive Corrective Control’ requirements, backed by relevant hardware to secure the flexibility needs of today’s new market conditions. Progressive ‘Smart Digital Control’ systems are Key to cope those new market challenges. This creates new growth opportunities for the sector. The basics to all these is the establishment of solid transmission and distribution grids. The aim of this paper is to evaluate briefly the various options, including the possibility of demand side management and to introduce a solution to the market.

Biographical Sketch

Tamer Turna, was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1967. He graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business – Executive Education Program and performed his Ph.D., graduate and undergraduate education at the Technical University Yildiz with the major in mechanical engineering. Since 2011 he is the C.E.O. and Member of the Board of YILDIRIM ENERGY HOLDING AS where he developed ultra super critical parameters based thermal-, H-Class combined cycle power plants projects with a total size of 4400 MW, as well as managed an acquisition of a 150 MW renewables class hydro power station fleet. Prior to joining YILDIRIM ENERYG HOLDING AS, he worked as executive manager at companies like Stromerzeugung u. Anlagenbau GmbH, Borusan Power Systems AS., CATERPILLAR Power Ventures Inc., MVV Energie AG., E.ON Power Projects AG. and TES Ltd.