Uluslararası Ekonomik Araştırmalar Dergisi

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Energy use is accompanied by increases in factors such as production, population and urbanization. However, energy dependency is also increasing as energy use is increased to achieve country growth, such as Turkey, where most of the energy is received from outside. To overcome this problem, countries will have to turn to domestic energy sources. Turkey has only enough coal to own fossil fuels. However, in time, Turkey has become less able to benefit from this source of electricity generation. On the other hand, Turkey is below the world average for the use of coal for electricity generation. In 1985, domestic coal usage peaked at the highest level, decreasing from 35.4% to 11.5% in 2015. One of the reasons for the reduction in the use of coke in electricity generation is fossil fuel and environmental cost. It is aimed to raise the share of electricity production to 30% of the official authorities, such as the developments of domestic coal, clean coal technology, unstable energy prices, Turkey being a developing country and energy demand increasing very rapidly. Along with this, there is a constantly growing population, increasing population demand, Turkey, which has commitments on carbon emission quantities through international agreements, will it only save 30% of coal from energy dependency? In this study, the relationship between domestic coal usage rates and energy dependence is analyzed with the annualized autoregressive distributed delay (ARDL) model for domestic coal use variables for electricity generation, energy dependency, GDP, population and electricity generation, including 1970-2015 for Turkey It was. The study investigates the relationship between domestic coal usage rates and energy dependency. A positive 0,505 [4,278], relationship was found between energy dependence and electricity generation in the long run after analysis, Negative -0.319 [-3,053] direction between electricity production based on indigenous communities, a negative correlation of -0,408 [-6,491] between the gross domestic product and a positive 4,377 [5,576] relationship between the population was found. All coefficients were found to be statistically significant. As a result, increasing the domestic coal additive ratio in electricity generation will reduce energy dependency. In the meantime, it is necessary for Turkey to do more research on energy efficiency and efficiency as well as pass on domestic renewable energy