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Figure 3: Electricity Generation, Installed Capacity, Electricity Cost and Carbon Dioxide Emissions of
the Scenario CG/HE and Projections until 2050 of Cyprus (DLR 2005)
The electricity production of Cyprus is based on imported fossil fuels and few amounts
are from renewable energy sources where there are plenty of solar potentials, some
wind and biomass energies. As expected, the energy demand is increased like every
underdeveloped country and also, the other reason is in Southern Cyprus, there is a
huge tourism sector especially from April to October which is the main demand for
energy (Pashardes et al 1995).
In Southern Cyprus, there are 3 thermal power stations. One of the stations is located in
the east of Limassol city. It has capacity of 988 MW which is included 6x30 MW steam
turbines and 4x37.5 MW gas turbines. The other power station is located in the east of
Larnaca city and it has 6x60 MW steam turbines. The third one is located in Vasilikos
and it has 2x130 MW steam turbines and 38 MW gas turbine. All of these stations are
worked by imported fossil fuels. It is also planned to increase the capacity in the last
decade by 710 MW extra power plant because of the high energy demand. On the other
hand, there is only one renewable energy station in Southern Cyprus which is wind farm
and located in Koukla village, in Paphos city. It was officially opened in March, 2011 and
supply 8% of energy consumption of Southern Cyprus. There is 41 wind turbines and
each of them produces 2MW electricity energy which means totally 82MW electricity
energy. Moreover, according to the EU targets, Southern Cyprus has also other
renewable energy projects as solar parks and wind farms which were aimed to be
installed in the next decade (Kalogirou 2003).
