Turkey aims to increase the share of the domestic and renewable energy sources in the country’s electricity production to two-thirds by 2023, said Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez said at a recently held G20 ministerial meeting in Japan. “Last month another wind auction for 1 gigawatt capacity was also successfully completed,” Donmez said during a session at the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Energy Transitions and Global Environment for Sustainable Growth in 2019 in Nagano, according to a press release from Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Ministry, according to Balkan Green Energy News.

Donmez said that Turkey needs to rely on energy efficiency, as well as renewable energy, fossil fuels and nuclear power technologies for a sustainable future, according to the press release. He said that in 2017, Turkey became a member of “the 1 GW Club” of geothermal energy, adding that the goal is to exceed 2 GW by 2023.