
Dr. Selim Arıkan
Chief Executive Officer
The story, values and operating approach of Kuzeyyel Enerji.
Kuzeyyel Enerji began in 2009 when three engineers set up a wind measurement station in Ayvacık, Çanakkale. Our first wind farm, Çakmaktepe, came online in 2013; today we operate 591 MW with 177 turbines across nine sites. Annual generation has reached 1.9 TWh.
We measure the wind resource, develop projects, arrange financing, have the farm built and then operate it with our own crews for 25 years and beyond. A trading desk balances our output between the spot market, the YEKDEM scheme and corporate green power agreements.
Kuzeyyel Enerji Generation Inc. is owned by domestic institutional investors, a pension fund and the founding partners. Projects are financed with long-term loans from international development banks.
Our head office is in Bayraklı, Izmir; the field control centre and maintenance base are in Çanakkale, with a spare-parts warehouse in Bandırma. Of our 214 employees, 138 work on site.
With our own maintenance crews and local spare-part stores, turbines stay available above 98% year-round.
SCADA data from all nine sites is monitored live in Çanakkale; faults reach response crews within minutes.
We apply radar-assisted shutdowns during bird migration and activity-based curtailment for bats.
71% of our site staff come from villages and districts around the wind farms.
We publish production, emissions, safety and community investment indicators every year with independent assurance.

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