Electricity Market Law, Non-Discriminatory Grid Access
In forceLaw No. 6446 (Electricity Market Law), Arts. 1, 3, 5
Effective 2013-03-30 · Applies to both
The Electricity Market Law's stated purpose (Art. 1) is a competitive, financially sound, and transparent electricity market, independently regulated, that supplies electricity to consumers adequately, reliably, and at low cost. An eligible consumer (serbest tüketici) is one whose consumption exceeds a regulator-set threshold, which would reach a large industrial consumer such as a data centre.
Article 5(2) lets a supply company sell electricity, wholesale or retail, to an eligible consumer anywhere in the country without regional restriction, rather than confining that consumer to its local distribution utility's regulated retail tariff.
Connection of a new facility to the transmission or distribution grid runs through a published-capacity process: the transmission system operator (TEİAŞ) and distribution companies publish, each year, the regional generation facility capacity that can be connected to their systems for the following five and ten years, and a connection opinion is given only within those published capacities (Art. 23), with retail and connection tariffs approved by the energy regulator on a non-discriminatory basis among equal parties.
No provision of the Law names a data centre or any comparable large consumption facility as a distinct category, and none addresses water use or air emissions.
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