UTKU KÖKER

Abstract

Countries are working to define and track pathways decreasing CO₂ emissions since the Kyoto Protocol has been signed on 1992. Paris Agreement in 2015 fortified the renewable energy strongly; and as a result US and Europe had to step ahead in renewable energy roadmaps. In the renewable energy transition process, cost of annually generated energy has a great importance. On the other hand, as a small representative of a country, cities have more than one energy generation plant. Various fuel-based plants and energy generation technologies (from renewables to fossil fuelled plants) make the calculation of unit cost of energy generation more complex.

Manisa is an important city in Aegean Region of Turkey, rich in energy generation technologies from renewable to lignite plants presents with a wide opportunity for assessment of energy production costs. However, alternative energy cost calculation methods exist in the literature such as ESA and LCOE, with different limitations and assumptions. In this study, a code on MATLAB environment is prepared to simulate the Manisa electricity generation grid to determine the amount of electricity production for each power plant. The outputs of the simulation are used in cost calculation process on the MS Excel sheets using a modified version of LCOE methodology for the base year 2016.

The same simulation has been applied on EnergyPLAN environment as an additional study to verify the results of the MATLAB code and provide a basis for discussion on the amount of energy and respective equivalent CO₂ emissions by these two platforms.

Biyografi

Utku Köker, 1978 yılında Sinop-Türkiye’de doğdu. Lisans öğrenimini 2000 yılında, yüksek lisans öğrenimini ise 2003 yılında 9 Eylül Üniversitesi Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü’nde tamamladı.2015 yılında Anadolu Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nü bitirdi. Halen Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümünde doktora programına devam etmektedir.

2010 yılından beri Uşak İl Afet ve Acil Durum Müdürlüğü’nde endüstri mühendisi olarak görev yapmaktadır. Doktora programında tez aşamasında olup “Bölgesel Enerji Modellemeleri ve Alternatif Çözüm Yaklaşımlarının Optimizasyonu” konulu tezine devam etmektedir.