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Accordingly, the Investment Planning Department is responsible of;

• Conducting field surveys about the existing structure and electrical needs of the distribution grid.
• Analysing economic, geographical, population-related and demographic characteristics as well as data related to regional expansion areas.
• Consulting with the local governments, public institutions and organisations.
• After the completion of field works in line with the grid needs, determining short and middle term master plans by taking into account the increase in demand at the electricity distribution facility, ensuring supply continuity, improving technical and commercial quality parameters, increasing the quality of service offered and to be offered for the customers, demand estimation with the purpose of renewing the grid which has completed its economic life and regional development parameters.
• Preparing 5-year implementation term investment plans and justification reports to be submitted to EMRA including construction justifications belonging to these projects, their budgets and the benefits that would be gained from these. 
• Creating yearly investment plans in line with the investment budget for 5-year implementation term approved by EMRA by prioritising existing needs of the distribution grid according to the field surveys and analyses.
• Preparing the plan file that constitutes the infrastructure for the project works that would fulfil the investment need that was determined following ensuring the coordination with the relevant company departments and relevant public institutions/organisation (Governorships, Municipalities, Mukhtar Offices, TEDAŞ, TEİAŞ, etc.) and developing the necessary data.
• Allocating the necessary budgets for yearly investment projects, ensuring agreement with TEDAŞ by coordinating propriety controls conducted by TEDAŞ and delivering the projects to the department of construction works for installation activities.
• Coordinating the necessary licenses with the relevant public institutions/organisations (KGM, OGM, etc.) in order to ensure feasibility of the projects to be realised in the field.
• Following up the necessary processes in order to verify that the investments are carried out in accordance with the regulation, providing technical and legal support for the departments responsible of managing the projects in question, clarifying points of uncertainty and taking decisions to minimise the risks.
• Reporting the investment expenditure to EMRA following the completion of planned investments on the field and provisional acceptance processes.
• Developing the necessary technical information and strategies with the purpose of ensuring evolution of the investments in the distributions system to the optimum topology in the long term and creating a grid that is easy to operate with minimum number of faults.
• Representing our company in the lighting commission held under the presidency of the Governor at each city at least once a month as per the Regulation Regarding General Lighting, obtaining approvals for lighting investments included in the investment plans and presenting projects' progress.
• Developing connection planning processes and implementation practices which are the most important processes in terms of the satisfaction of the customers who make new connection requests, conducting the processes in the most correct way possible in practice.

Main elements considered when preparing short, middle and long-term investment plans are:

• Investments made for safety of life and property,
• Investments to meet the energy demands,
• Lighting investments,
• Investments to renew city grid and improve supply continuity,
• Investments to improve and renew village grids,
• Investments to improve supply continuity,
• Investments of Energy Transmission Line, Measurement Cabin with Breaker (KÖK) and Distribution Centre,
• Meter investments,
• Technological investments (Scada, GIS, AMRS)

Real Estate and Expropriation

• The investment program of our company includes the expropriation activities for the facility locations (Energy Transmission Line, Transformer, Distribution Centre, Cabin with Breaker Prevention, etc.). These are provided as right of way, right of usufruct, leasing or allocation with or without charging of price.
• Price determinations are made by preparing maps and plans as the basis of expropriation.
• Field measurements are taken with the purpose of survey.
• Works are conducted to enable the necessary allocation of the facility locations from the relevant municipalities where these fall inside the zoning plan.
• The process to obtain the necessary permits is conducted by ensuring coordination with the General Directorate of Forestry for the facility locations that fall within the forestland. Fees are paid for the obtained permits and the processes for obtaining permits are followed up.
• Timing is coordinated for site delivery to the facility contractors in relation with the facility locations which were expropriated or allocated.
• Property taxes are followed and paid.
• Actions to transfer facilities to third parties are taken (Expropriation, leasing, allocation).

Construction Works

• These include the necessary changes in the existing electricity infrastructure,
• The necessary renewals in the existing electricity infrastructure,
• And the investments to expand the infrastructure to be made in line with the legal regulations.

With this purpose,

• Energy Transmission Lines,
• Underground electricity network,
• Lighting facilities,
• And transformer centres are built in the regions required.

The basis for these is to design these investments using the most economic solutions and to offer services to our customers by building the facilities in line with the design. In addition, meeting the electricity demands of the newly constructed buildings also has an important place among our duties.

Technical Office

Başkent EDAŞ technical office is involved with Project Control and Approval processes for Electricity Distribution Facilities, Management of Acceptance Processes as the Basis of Company's Investment Budget, inspections and controls of Progress Payment and Final Account of the Company's Facility Works and controlling the field implementations associated with these. Control and approval processes of the projects belonging to all Electricity Distribution Facilities both prepared in-house and outsourced are conducted approval authorisations of which are given to the distribution companies every year as per the communique of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Electricity Facilities Project Approval and Acceptance Authorisations, implementation unity is ensured, and inspection and reporting processes are conducted in an effective way.

Başkent EDAŞ is responsible for conducting all the processes of provisional and final acceptance management of all the works included in its investment program as per the communique of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Electricity Facilities Project Approval and Acceptance Authorisations.

Progress payment and final account controls of the field implementations conducted as part of Başkent EDAŞ's investment budget are made and field inspections with regards to these works are conducted.