Vestas receives 83 MW order for Yahyalı wind park
Bak Enerji Uretimi A. Ş. is buying equipment for its wind project in Turkey from Vestas Wind Systems A/S. The order for the Yahyalı project comprises the supply and installation of 25 of V126-3.3 MW wind turbine units as well as a 10-year active output management (AOM) 4000 service agreement, Vestas said. Delivery of 83 […]
Belectric wins 77.4 MW in Turkey’s first solar licensing
Joint venture partner of Germany’s Belectric Solarkraftwerke GmbH has tendered successfully the single largest ground-mounted solar power project in Turkey with an AC connection capacity of 45 MW. Including this one, three projects developed by Belectric Kuloğlu Güneş Elektrik Santrallari Teknolojisi A. Ş. won recent tenders with a combined AC connection capacity of 77.4 MW, […]
JinkoSolar to supply 50 MW of solar panels to Tegnatia
Photovoltaic industry supplier JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. announced it would supply panels of 50 MW overall capacity to Turkey’s renewable energy developer Tegnatia. According to the agreements signed by both parties at the beginning of 2015, the equipment will be delivered in several shipments bound for projects across Turkey. Tegnatia is a joint venture between […]
IFC invests in Finans Leasing to help energy efficiency
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, said it is providing a USD 60 million (EUR 52.62 million) loan to Finans Leasing, a leading Turkish leasing company, to boost lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for sustainable energy efficiency projects that will cut costs and help protect the environment. IFC will lend USD […]
Government aims 30 percent renewable energy usage by 2023
Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Authority has received 14 times more pre-license applications than its allocated capacity for wind power plants, Mustafa Yılmaz, head of the authority, revealed on May 6, Anadolu Agency reported. At the 21st International Energy and Environment Fair and Conference (ICCI 2015) in Istanbul, he said the allocated capacity for wind power […]
Entso-E’s Continental Europe grid extended to Turkey
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (Entso-E) said its Continental Europe grid, one of the largest AC synchronous grids in the world, extended to Turkey and its 75 million consumers. „Electricity interconnection brings social welfare. This agreement means more electricity trade, more sharing of power reserves, more security and mutual help in […]
Juwi establishes its first photovoltaic project in Turkey
The German Juwi Group said construction is underway in the company’s first project in Turkey. In the municipality of Denizli, about 200 kilometers northwest of Antalya, seven individual PV power plants have a combined capacity of 7.4 MW and are scheduled to be connected to the grid early this summer, the press release said. The […]
Yıldız: 4 GW to be added in 2015, mostly from renewables
Turkey will add 4 GW to electricity production capacity in 2015, energy minister Taner Yıldız said, adding 95 percent will be provided through local and renewable resources, Hurriyet daily reported. The statement came after a massive power outage affected more than 76 million people in 80 out of 81 Turkish provinces for up to nine […]