Urgent Expropriation Decision for Energy Lines in Six Provinces

Six urgent expropriation decisions published in the Official Gazette with the signature of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cover immovable properties for electricity transmission line and natural gas distribution facility investments in six provinces. According to what Ekonomist (Dünya) reported, the decisions cover investments for the construction and renewal of electricity transmission lines and for a natural gas distribution facility.

The immovable properties required for the electricity transmission projects will be expropriated by Türkiye Elektrik İletim AŞ (TEİAŞ). The expropriation procedures to be carried out for the natural gas distribution facility in Ankara will be conducted by the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK).

In Ankara, immovable properties located along the route of the two-line project extending from the 154-kilovolt Gölbaşı–Emirler energy transmission line to the Yağlıpınar Satellite Transformer Station will be expropriated. In Konya, the areas designated for the connection project between the Kulu–Cihanbeyli energy transmission line and the Tosyalı Şeker Solar Power Plant Transformer Station have been included in the scope of expropriation. In both projects, ownership of the areas where electricity poles will be erected will be expropriated, and a right of easement will be established in the areas through which the conductors will pass.

In Kahramanmaraş, an urgent expropriation decision was also taken for the purpose of renewing the existing electricity transmission infrastructure and changing the routes of some lines. The five projects within the scope of the decision are as follows: Kahramanmaraş–Kapıçam Energy Transmission Line Partial Renewal, Kılavuzlu–Kipaş Energy Transmission Line Partial Renewal, Kılavuzlu–Kipaş Energy Transmission Line Renewal (New Route), Kahramanmaraş–Menzelet Energy Transmission Line Renewal (New Route) and Kahramanmaraş–Menzelet Energy Transmission Line Partial Renewal. The necessary sections of the immovable properties located along the routes will be expropriated by TEİAŞ, and a right of easement will be established in the areas needed for conductor passage.

Route changes will be made on two energy transmission lines connected to Kırıkkale and Çorum: certain sections of the 400-kilovolt Kayabaşı Mehmet Esen Transformer Station–Kırıkkale Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant Energy Transmission Line and the 154-kilovolt Sungurlu Organized Industrial Zone–Alaca Transformer Station Energy Transmission Line. In Mersin, it was decided to urgently expropriate the immovable properties required for the 154-kilovolt Mersin DRES Transformer Station–Akdeniz GIS Transformer Station Energy Transmission Line Project; while pole areas will be expropriated as ownership, a right of easement will be established in conductor passage areas.

Within the scope of the KMS-B natural gas distribution facility planned to be built in Kışla Neighborhood of Ankara's Kahramankazan district, it was decided to urgently expropriate the immovable property with block 104, parcel 180. The procedures will be carried out by EPDK and the said immovable property will be registered in the name of the Treasury.