Şevket Volkan Ediger

Ediger, Şevket Volkan

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Job Title

Prof. Dr.

Email Address

volkan.ediger@khas.edu.tr

Main Affiliation

Industrial Engineering

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Scholarly Output

41

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25

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Analysis of the Liberalization of the Turkish Natural Gas Market
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2023) UĞUR, ETHEM; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Volkan Ediger, Şevket; Industrial Engineering
Natural gas is used as a bridge fuel during the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewables because it produces less carbon emissions than oil and coal. In addition, countries, which are aiming to become more carbon neutral, are replacing coal with natural gas. These reasons have led the natural gas industry to grow and the gas business has gained an international dimension. In order to keep up with these developments, countries liberalize their gas markets by opening them to competition. The two important pillars of liberalization are third-party access to the physical infrastructure and the demolition of monopolies in the market. The European Union (EU) has implemented a series of reforms to be able to fully liberalize its internal gas markets. Turkey, the fourth largest gas-consuming country in Europe, has also made a series of reforms in order to harmonize with Europe during the EU accession process since 2001. However, Turkey’s goals to open its internal gas market to competition have only been partially achieved. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the performance of the Turkish natural gas market and to determine to what extent gas market reforms have been successful. The results of a detailed examination of the market and the survey carried out among the major market players have shown that the Turkish natural gas market should be improved in transparency, competitiveness, and cost-based pricing.
Renewable Energy in Turkey: a Cleaner, Self- Sufficient Alternative To Coal
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Karagöz, Gözde Nur; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Ediger, Volkan S.; Industrial Engineering
The world is in the midst of a transformative energy transition, moving to renewable energy sources from fossil fuels. The biggest reasons for this transition are global climate change and resource scarcity, both of which are caused by the use of fossil fuels. Among fossil fuels, coal has the highest emissions and causes more significant damage to people and the environment. Despite its negative effects, coal has a large share of the world's energy mix. However, many countries are moving away from coal and switch to renewable energy sources. Turkey is not one of those countries, as the energy system is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels and coal specifically. Turkey is planning on new coal-fired power plants in addition to existing ones and is generally supporting the coal industry. In addition to the environmental harm to Turkey – and the world – of its coal usage, most of the coal that Turkey burns is imported, thus contributing to the country's trade deficit. In order to limit the negative effects of coal use, Turkey needs to utilize its high renewable energy potential. This study reviews the current situation of coal and renewable energy sources in Turkey. It aims to look at current coal and renewable energy policies and compare them. According to this analysis, it will then offer suggestions for how Turkey can phase out coal and switch to renewable energies.
Citation - WoS: 30
Citation - Scopus: 37
Turkish Public Preferences for Energy
(Elsevier Science, 2018) Ediger, Volkan S.; Kirkil, Gökhan; Kirkil, Gökhan; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Çelebi, Emre; Ucal, Meltem; Ucal, Meltem Şengün; Kentmen-Cin, Çiğdem; Economics; Industrial Engineering; Civil Engineering
Public concern over energy supplies prices sustainability and efficiency has emerged as a major issue around the world. Yet most of what we know regarding public opinion on energy comes from North America and Europe. This paper presents the results from the 2016 Turkish Public Preferences for Energy Survey which included 1204 respondents and examined Turkish residents' household energy consumption energy policy preferences and environmental concerns. The main findings were that Turkish citizens consider natural gas and electricity highly expensive view dependence on imported energy as Turkey's most pressing energy challenge and recognize the problem of climate change. This lends public support for wind and solar power but at the same time energy issues and the environment policies of political parties do not affect voting choices and political preferences.
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Energy Management in Organized Industrial Zones: Promoting the Green Energy Transition in Turkish Manufacturing Industry
(IEEE Computer Society, 2024) Ediger,V.Ş.; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Küçüker,M.A.; Berk,I.; Inan,A.; Üçtuǧ,F.G.; 0; Industrial Engineering
Organized Industrial Zones (OIZ), which gained legal status by Law 4562 of 2000, played a significant role in Turkish industrialization policies, particularly in improving Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The energy management (EM) within OIZs is essential for Türkiye's green transition and 2053 net-zero pathway. Following the publication of a directive on OIZ's electricity market activities in 2006, enterprises can purchase electricity directly from OIZ management. Moreover, the Energy Efficiency Law No. 5627 of 2007 required OIZs to establish an energy management unit (EMU) to serve the participants with less than 1000 tons of oil equivalent (toe) energy consumption. EMUs provide OIZ management with a unique opportunity to enhance sustainable energy transition by increasing renewable energy production and improving the energy efficiency of participating enterprises. The primary goal of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of energy management units in OIZs in encouraging energy efficiency and green energy transition in the Turkish manufacturing industry. As a case study, we examine EM in the Adana Haci Sabanci Organized Industrial Zone (Adana OIZ), which ranks third among OIZs regarding electricity consumption. We analyze data on electricity infrastructures, roof-top PVs, invoice settlements/offsets, energy efficiency investments, and GHG emissions between 2017 and 2023. Our preliminary findings suggest that EMU in the Adana OIZ makes a very important contribution to the green transition of industrial establishments and that regulatory changes over the last decades have had positive effects. The share of renewable energy in the total energy mix increased from 1.6% to 21.4% over six years, and there has been a noteworthy enhancement in energy efficiency, reaching 27% in 22 companies evaluated. The main policy implication of our findings is that the role of regulatory bodies and efficient energy management in OIZs will be critical in achieving Türkiye's net zero target of 2053. © 2024 IEEE.
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Citation - Scopus: 4
The Effect of Energy Geopolitics on International Climate Change Initiatives
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2017) Ediger, Volkan S.; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Industrial Engineering
In this article in general the relationship between international climate change initiatives and energy geopolitics was analyzed and in particular the developments in energy geopolitics were investigated with a historical point of view by dividing the years between 1965 and 2014 into periods of geopolitical intensity and geopolitical stability based on long-term periodic variations in oil prices. More specifically the reasons why international initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol regarded as an important agreement for imposing commitments in climate change mitigation have not been sufficiently successful were investigated. Regarding the Kyoto Protocol the failure stemmed from three main reasons. The first and the most important reason was the intensification of geopolitical tensions on a global scale. The second reason was the differences among states in terms of their energy needs and possession of indigenous energy sources. The last reason was the ambiguity regarding the role of the state and the market at the implementation level. The author links the general failure in the efforts to tackle climate change to the developments in energy geopolitics and argues that the competition periods in energy geopolitics as observed during the oil crises decrease the chances of success for international initiatives on climate change.
Natural Gas Exploitation in the Eastern Mediterranean: a Holistic Approach
(Kadir Has University Center for Energy and Sustainable Development, 2023) Ediger, Volkan; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Elfeky, Rahma; Karampalis, Dimitrios; Mengi, Hazal; Tan, Sadık Erkan; Bowlus, John Vincent; Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom’s Türkiye Office; Industrial Engineering
Discoveries of significant natural gas reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean since 2010 have elevated the region’s geopolitical importance from being strictly based on security to one also based on energy and has thus drawn in outside powers that are eager to address their energy-supply security needs. The energy crises triggered first by the supply chain disruptions in 2021 and then the Russia-Ukraine War in 2022 have elevated the region’s importance as a potential energy supplier and transit hub for Europe. This report takes a holistic approach to critically assess the activities carried out in the Eastern Mediterranean region in the fields of exploration, discovery, development, production, and export of natural gas, and the delimitation of exclusive economic zones (EEZs), as well as the effects that these activities have on the economies, policies, and strategies of Eastern Mediterranean countries at the interstate, regional and global levels. Previous studies have generally evaluated the activities related to natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean from narrow perspectives and only a very small number have dealt with all these elements considered together and with analysis of cause-and-effect relationships on a regional or global scale. The authors deploy a systemic approach that is similar to the petroleum system concept, which evaluates hydrocarbon generation, migration, accumulation, and entrapment in an entire petroleum system on the basis of its essential elements (sources, reservoirs, seals, and overburden rocks) and processes (trap formations and generation-migration-accumulation) as well as the preservation time and, most importantly, the critical moments when events are significant enough to affect the whole system. Likewise, this report uses qualitative and quantitative media analysis of six newspapers – two from Egypt, two from Greece, and two from Turkey from the first discovery of gas by Israel in 1999 to 2023 – to determine the critical moments that have brought what the authors term the Eastern Mediterranean gas exploitation system (EMGES) to a crossroads, where either conflict and confrontation or stability and cooperation will prevail. No one can predict when this system will be overwhelmed by the essential elements (the ten Eastern Mediterranean states), the essential processes (activities related to gas exploitation and delimitation of EEZs), and the critical moments (major conflict periods). This is rendered even more uncertain by a rapidly shifting geopolitical context that is being shaped by the energy transition from fossil fuels to clean energy sources as well as the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world. Given how interconnected all these factors are, only a holistic approach can help illustrate how the EMGES has reached this crossroads. For stability and cooperation to prevail in EMGES, two conditions must be met. First, countries must recognize that they are directly interconnected and depend on one another and a common vision that balances the economic and strategic interests of each country to forge development and sustainability. Second, a robust cooperative structural framework must be developed that does not exclude any individual country and involves external powers, most notably the EU and the United States.
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Citation - Scopus: 2
Perception, Petroleum, and Power: Mythmaking in Oil-Scarce Turkey and Jordan
(Elsevier, 2020) Ediger, Volkan S.; Selen, Eser; Selen, Eser; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Bowlus, John V.; Visual Communication Design; Industrial Engineering
Oil has been a cardinal driver of economic growth and national development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. States that produce oil in globally exportable quantities tend to be more powerful than those that do not. Oil-scarce states in the Middle East that neighbor oil-rich states and rely on them for imports create myths to explain their relatively unfortunate geology. This study illustrates and analyzes the myths that people in Turkey and Jordan have created to explain why they lack oil. In the process, it also explains the attitudes, beliefs, and social norms within these countries regarding oil. In both Turkey and Jordan, public understanding of why the country lacks oil forms a tautology about the relationship between oil and the nation's wealth and development, as well as its political, economic, and military power.
Renewable Energy Cooperation in the Brics: a Realistic Option
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2020) Güney, Elif; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Ediger, Volkan; Industrial Engineering
The energy transition from coal to oil and natural gas was a requirement for a new energy system to improve efficiency and meet future energy demand. Therefore, the increase in natural gas and renewable energy resources is expected to lead to a new energy revolution to solve resource scarcity and the main challenges of global climate change. One of the most challenging questions for this transition: "Can countries with different energy profiles and strategies cooperate on the renewable energy transition?" To answer this question, the BRICS, defined as global cooperation made up of countries exhibiting tremendous heterogeneity in economic and political circumstances, is an appropriate case for understanding the energy transition. The analysis of BRICS as renewable energy cooperation also provides a further perspective to evaluate to what extent the BRICS still matter and to what extent these countries are approaching or moving away from each other. However, there is a deficiency in combining different parameters to understand the renewable energy transition in the BRICS. With this purpose, this thesis offers a comprehensive overview of the topic by comparing and applying two theoretical concepts – path dependence and leapfrogging – to analyze the possibility of BRICS cooperation. The study first reviews country-level variations through the theoretical concepts of path dependency and leapfrogging and then presents the BRICS countries regarding their country-level variations. It then elaborates on past energy cooperation among the BRICS and evaluates the possibility of future renewable energy cooperation. At the end of the study, it is argued that the BRICS can cooperate on the renewable energy transition, but this does not mean that the experience of each country will be similar. This study suggests that cooperation on the renewable energy transition among the BRICS is possible only under certain circumstances. To foster this process, BRICS members need to re-evaluate their energy policies, encourage renewable energy development with new policies and create a well-defined structure for economic diversification away from fossil fuel dependency.
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China’s Energy-Supply Security in the Multi-Energy Transition Period From Fossil Fuels To Renewable Energy
(World Scientific Publishing Co., 2020) Bowlus, John V.; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Dursun, Ahmet Faruk; Ediger, Volkan Ş.; Industrial Engineering
The rise of China as an economic superpower after the 2008 global financial crisis has attracted increasing worldwide attention. Securing access to ample and affordable energy supplies - energy-supply security - has underpinned its rise and will continue to contribute to its economic prosperity. This chapter examines China’s energy-security challenge with respect to its policies. The global energy system is currently undergoing a multi-energy transition away from fossil fuels: the powers will take different paths, creating competition between one another and thus between energy sources. The development of China’s energy-security policies and challenges as well as climate change, both at home and abroad, will therefore shape this competition and the global energy transition in the coming decades.
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Geopolitics of Oil & Gas
(Energy Institute, 2014) Ediger, Volkan S.; Ediger, Şevket Volkan; Industrial Engineering
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