Boğaziçi University Kilyos Sarıtepe Campus will be the first university campus in the world, which provides energy from the renewable wind energy source through wind power plant run by the campus itself.
Sarıtepe Campus will supply energy, that the campus need during one year, through the wind turbine of 1 MW.
The turbine will produce surplus energy, 40 percent more than needed energy, and convey it to the network. Thus, the turbine will save 900 tons of carbon, 1 billion kWh energy and 400,000 Turkish liras.
Prof. Gülay Barbarosoğlu, rector of Boğaziçi University, who realized the project, stated that the wind power plant was built with the support of Ministry of Development. “Our university has completed one more stage in the process of being Green Campus and this project, proved the decisiveness of our Sarıtepe Campus about creating sustainable living spaces,” she said.
Emre Otay, instructor at Civil Engineering Department at Boğaziçi University and at the same time project coordinator, stated that there are some universities in the world, which produce energy from the natural resources such as geothermal and sun energy or build wind turbines for the purpose making research. He added: “However, Boğaziçi University Sarıtepe Campus is the first one that meets the energy needed in more than one year in the campus and supplies it via the energy plant run by campus itself.”
Having expressed that they started R&D studies, Otay stated that apart from energy resources such as wind, sun, wave, biogas, and geothermal, they work on energy storage and energy efficiency and “we want to be a green campus,” he added. (MUY/ÇT)
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