Feyza Pakelgil

Zorlu Enerji is an international integrated energy company based in Türkiye which has more than 25 years of experience in electricity generation & distribution from renewable energy sources, including geothermal power, solar power, wind power, and hydropower. Zorlu Enerji's total installed capacity is 991 MW. There are four geothermal power plants (305 MWe), seven hydroelectric power plants (119 MWe), two wind farms (191,4 MWe), and two solar power plants (5 MWe). Besides these areas, with its ZES brand, the company aims to accelerate the popularization of electric vehicles and to facilitate the travel of electric vehicle owners in Turkey with several rapid charging stations (more than 2000 EV sockets) commissioned on city roads and highways.

Zorlu Enerji has been carrying out R&D projects since 2018, and now it has ten ongoing funded projects (two Horizon2020, five Horizon Europe, one Eurogia, one EraNet and one TENMAK) and five completed projects (two Horizon2020, 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.