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Electricity from Turkey under the sea?
By Simon Bahceli
THE NORTH could soon be so awash with electricity that it will be in a position to sell a surplus to the south, Turkish Cypriot businessman Ali Ozmen Safa predicted yesterday after the announcement of a planned project to bring electricity to north Cyprus under the sea from Turkey.

“Our primary aim is to provide electricity for north Cyprus, but it is also part of our strategy to be in a position to sell electricity to the south,” Safa said in Star Kibris, a newspaper he owns in the north.

Safa’s announcement is likely to be viewed with scepticism by most Turkish Cypriots because, like numerous other projects proposed over the decades since the invasion, it is based on the idea of bringing power and water under the Mediterranean from Turkey. So far, no such projects have come to fruition, except one that involved bringing fresh water in massive balloons from the southern Turkish coastal town of Manavgat to Morphou. This was however abandoned after the balloons were repeatedly burst by driftwood and other marine objects.

However, Safa insists his project, which he believes will cost in the region of €400 million, is feasible and is being looked at positively by the authorities in Turkey and northern Cyprus. He also claims to have secured all the finances he needs to start the project.

“We have the funds and are ready to go,” Safa told the Cyprus Mail yesterday, adding that the project had been set up as a joint venture between his and other companies.
Under the auspices of his TURIMEX Technologies Company, Safa says his project foresees buying electricity from Turkey or its neighbours, such as Azerbaijan and Iran, and bringing it via three underground cables to converter stations on the northern coast of island.

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007

[utu]

We'll wait and see when - and if - they start actually laying the cables. Like was mentioned ealier, several similar ideas didn't even get started...

[Pumpy]

Sounds a ludicrous and far fetched idea. If it happens, it won't be for years.

That said, nothing wrong with making the most of a free market economy, especially of it brings competition and lower prices for members of the public.

I hope there won't be the usual stream of reactionary guff on this thread that I once knew and loved in my old posting days.



adios

[umit07]

Personally I think its bullshit because the electicity prices in Turkey are amongst the highest in the world, if this safa bloke has so much money why doesn't he just build his own power plant.

[denizaksulu]

Plenty of hot air, as usual.

[phoenix]

I hope all the Turk-TCs get a big shock . . . .

(Think I'll invest in some rubber shoes whilst walking around Cyprus, and perhaps give swimming in the sea a miss )

[denizaksulu]

I hope all the Turk-TCs get a big shock . . . .

(Think I'll invest in some rubber shoes whilst walking around Cyprus, and perhaps give swimming in the sea a miss )

Stick to your bike, you will be fine

[boomerang]

Time for the bubbly to come out, to celebrate this momentous occasion...

iden o kolos to vratzie tze eshestike...

[denizaksulu]

Time for the bubbly to come out, to celebrate this momentous occasion...

iden o kolos to vratzie tze eshestike...

Dont hold your breath Boomer.

[boomerang]

Time for the bubbly to come out, to celebrate this momentous occasion...

iden o kolos to vratzie tze eshestike...

Dont hold your breath Boomer.

too late champers is out and uncorked...