Regulation on Increasing Efficiency in the Use of Energy Resources and Energy (Turkey)
Original title Enerji Kaynaklarının ve Enerjinin Kullanımında Verimliliğin Artırılmasına Dair Yönetmelik
T.C. Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı
The implementing regulation of Law 5627, detailing energy-management duties, energy manager certification, energy audits (etüt) and authorised bodies.
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Overview
This regulation is the implementing regulation of Energy Efficiency Law 5627 and was published in Resmî Gazete no. 28097 on 27.10.2011. By Article 1 its purpose is to set the procedures for increasing efficiency in the use of energy sources and energy. The issuing body is the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, and the text is freely available on mevzuat.gov.tr.
It details energy-management duties, energy manager certification, energy audits (etüt) and authorised bodies. It sets the thresholds at which industrial enterprises and commercial, service and public buildings must appoint a certified energy manager. Energy-manager training is open to engineering and architecture graduates and certain technical-faculty graduates (Article 11(1)). The thresholds matter for design. Industrial enterprises with annual consumption of 1,000 TEP or more must appoint a certified energy manager from their staff (Article 9(1)).
Commercial and service buildings with 20,000 m2 or more or 500 TEP/year or more, and public buildings with 10,000 m2 or more or 250 TEP/year or more, must appoint a certified energy manager or contract one (Article 9(2), amended RG 6.7.2022). Within a campus, the floor areas of separate buildings are summed. As a limit, the regulation has no data-centre-specific provision; it sets general obligations.
Key points
- Purpose: procedures for increasing efficiency in the use of energy sources and energy (Article 1(1)).
- Industrial enterprises with annual consumption of 1,000 TEP or more must appoint a certified energy manager from their staff (Article 9(1)).
- Commercial/service buildings of 20,000 m2 or 500 TEP/year or more, and public buildings of 10,000 m2 or 250 TEP/year or more, must appoint or contract a certified energy manager (Article 9(2), amended 6.7.2022).
- Within a campus, floor areas of separate buildings are summed to determine the total (Article 9(2)).
- Energy-manager training is open to engineering/architecture graduates and certain technical-faculty graduates (Article 11(1)).
- It implements Law 5627 and also covers audits and authorised bodies.
Using it in design
- In campus planning, sum the floor areas of all data-centre buildings on the campus when checking the energy-manager threshold.
- Treat public-sector clients separately; their thresholds are lower (10,000 m2 / 250 TEP).
- Add a check that converts annual energy use to TEP and compares it with the thresholds.
- State in the report that the client may acquire a duty to appoint an energy manager.
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Who should read it
Designers planning data centres in Turkey, energy managers and officials responsible for regulatory compliance.
Related standards
- 5627 sayılı Enerji Verimliliği Kanunu
- ISO 50001
Publication details
- Authors
- T.C. Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı
- Publisher
- T.C. Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı
- Year
- 2011
- Document number
- RG 28097 (27.10.2011)
- Document language
- Turkish
- Source type
- Turkish regulation
- Access
- Free to read
- Licence
- Bibliographic reference only — the document is not redistributed here; confirm reuse terms at the original source
Original licence note
Official Turkish legislation published in the Resmî Gazete; FSEK (Law 5846) Art. 31 makes laws and regulations freely reproducible, but this library keeps it citation-only by policy. Text read from mevzuat.gov.tr (consolidated version as of 2026-11).
Citation
T.C. Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı (2011). Enerji Kaynaklarının ve Enerjinin Kullanımında Verimliliğin Artırılmasına Dair Yönetmelik. T.C. Enerji ve Tabii Kaynaklar Bakanlığı. RG 28097 (27.10.2011). https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat?MevzuatNo=15437&MevzuatTur=7&MevzuatTertip=5
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