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Teknecik Electricity Station. It has a capacity of 2x60 MW steam turbine, 1x20 MW gas
turbine, 1x10 MW gas turbine and 6x17.5 MW diesel generators which comes to 255
MW in total. There is the smallest and oldest power station which is located in Dikmen
village, in the northern of Nicosia. It has only 20 MW capacity of electricity energy by gas
turbine. These two stations are under government’s control. There is one more station in
Kalecik which is between Famagusta and Karpaz regions and it is private business,
AKSA energy. Kalecik Electricity Station has a capacity of 4x17.5 MW diesel generators
and 1x17.5 MW spare one which comes to 87.5 MW in total.
In addition, there is only one renewable energy station in Northern Cyprus which is
produced only few amount of electricity energy by solar energy. This is located in the
north-west of Guzelyurt (Morphou) city and has a capacity of 1.2 MW electricity energy.
Housing in Cyprus
Due to the small island and less population most of the housing in Cyprus is 1 or 2
storey houses. Before becoming a British Colony, most of the houses were built from
natural materials. The most popular building material is earth and stone. There are still
some examples of these buildings on the island (Kiessel et al 2011). According to the
climatic conditions earthen buildings are one of the best convenient styles for Cyprus.
After becoming a British Colony at the end of 19th century, the traditional Cypriot
architecture had started to change. Especially in the early 1950s, this was seemed very
clearly while examining the buildings in Cyprus. The new trend was concrete buildings
and they were built without any consideration to the bioclimatic design guidelines
(Kiessel et al 2011). This is still the case on the island. After the independence of Cyprus
in 1960, the architecture was continued which was brought by colonial period. In 1974,
there was a division and the architectural styles were continued in same way in both
sides (Michaelides 1991).
In the early 1980s, Northern authority was building social houses due to a huge
necessity of housing. Most of the houses were built as two storey houses as a terrace
house unit. There were a few number of 3-4 storey apartments as well. Until the early
1990s, most of the houses were built from concrete and brick walls without any water
and heat insulation. This increased the energy demand dramatically because there are
huge heat losses. In the early 1990s, the construction sector started to evaluate the way
of constructing buildings and the new materials started to be used, especially for
insulation. As mentioned above, the tradition is to live in low rise buildings in Cyprus. In
the early 1990s apartment buildings were built but at the end of the period it was
examined that it was not very attractive for Cypriots. Single storey, two storey houses or
terrace houses are more attractive for Cypriots.
Solar Water Heating
In the early 1960ss Cyprus began to produce solar water heaters. Solar water heater
manufacturing is one the quickly expanded industry in Cyprus. Also, Cyprus is the top
country that uses solar water heaters in the world. Generally, a typical solar water heater
is used in Cyprus which is called as thermosyphon. It has two flat-plate solar collectors
which have 3-4m
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absorber area, 150-180 litres storage tank and a cold water tank on
the top. The solar collectors are flat type collectors and made from copper absorber and
pipes (Michaelides, 1991); Kalogirou 2005). Usually, 3kW electric heater is added to the
system as supporter for winter period because of less solar radiation which is normally
not enough for the house. In the houses which have convectional fuel based central
heating systems, the boiler is used as spare while it is needed and it is connected to the
storage tank.
