Starting with Turkey’s first B.O.T. hydropower scheme back in 1986, BM currently owns and operates 6 HEPPs, with 5 more projects under construction. Total annual power generation is 255GWh current, 525GWh planned, with another 650GWh in the pipeline.

In line with BM's commitment to efficiency and innovation, all technical and environmental aspects of each project are meticulously reviewed and investigated far beyond legal requirements by BM's in-house engineering team, starting from feasibility studies to the commercial operation stage.

Some of the novelties devised by the in-house engineering team include:

• Construction of a large dam in full swamp ³,
• Conversion of a dam into a multi-level cascade system with %90 reduced expropriation,
• Rubber spillways and flush power house design for reduced environmental impact,
• Conversion of numerous HEPP surface water transmission lines to underground for reduced environmental impact, expropriation area and easier operation,
• Integration of numerous cascade hydropower projects into single more efficient plants with significantly improved benefit / cost ratios.

¹ Dilek-Güroluk HEPP is the first in Türkiye for realization of hydropower investments under the B.O.T scheme
² Approx. 85 MW in operation, others at various stages of development and construction.
³ Büyükçekmece Dam, İstanbul - by perimeter-sealed pan dewatering method enabling 6 months early project completion