BONN - Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler has said that as the Turkish government, they attributed great importance to renewable energy issue and they would make Renewable Energy Law.
Guler and Turkish Environment and Forestry Minister Osman Pepe attended second day session of the International Renewable Energy Conference in Bonn city of Germany on Thursday.
Speaking to the A.A correspondent, Guler said that it was interesting that the conference took place while oil prices were increasing in the world.
Noting that Turkey was rich in wind and solar energy, Guler said, ''Turkey will be transformed into a 'center of wind energy' with legal arrangements. As a result of renewable energy, we will make use of national resources. Turkey can currently make use of thirty-five percent of its water resources. Electricity energy from water is about twenty-six percent. Our aim is to increase this rate.''
Ministers and high-level bureaucrats from nearly one hundred countries participate in the conference that will end on Friday.
(MS-AÖ) 03.06.2004