Examination of wind energy from the point of Administrative Law

Need for the energy sources increased after the industrial revolution and until the last period of the twentieth century fossil fuels were used for energy production. However it is observed over time that consumption of fossil fuels damaged the environment and renewable energy sources has become important. Thus, as one of renewable energy sources, wind energy has an important place. Legal basis must be determined in order to benefit from this energy source. In this regard, a detailed legal basis was created in order to produce electricity from wind energy. Accordingly, private person who wants to produce electricity from wind energy has to obtain production licence and pre-licence. In regard to administrative act theory, production licence and pre-licence have the characteristics of the administrative act. Obtaining production licence and pre- licence has certain legal conditions as to get environmental impact assesment decision or to get property or tenure of production area. All these conditions are related to a principle or an institution of administrative law. In this thesis, first of all, notion and history of utilization of wind energy are explained. In the second section, principles of administrative law related to electricity production from wind energy are represented. Besides, obligations of private person and legal characteristic of licence and pre-licence are explained. In the last section, control of the wind energy power plants and responsibility of the administration and licensee is represented within the scope of administrative law. Keywords: Wind Energy, Wind Energy Power Plants, Production Pre-licence, Production Licence, Administrative Act.