Eksim Energy launches production at its Yozgat wind park in central Turkey

Eksim Energy, which operates one of the biggest solar power plants in Turkey, commissioned the first part of its Yozgat wind farm. The company based in Istanbul has surpassed 1 GW in installed capacity.

Eksim Energy (Enerji) is accelerating its expansion in the green energy sector in Turkey – the company said it has received all permits for the first four turbines at its Yozgat wind farm in Central Anatolia. Now half of the planned 56 MW in capacity is online, less than a year since the start of construction.

The company, part of Eksim Holding and headquartered in Istanbul, revealed that 135 people worked 140,000 hours so far. Yozgat is its ninth wind power plant and thirteenth renewable energy facility, the update reads.

With the commissioning of the four turbines, Eksim Energy’s capacity topped 1 GW.

Just within the past year, the company also completed the expansion of its Gevye wind power plant, added a solar power segment to its Susurluk wind park and built the Viranşehir photovoltaic plant, one of the largest in Turkey.

Eksim Energy almost doubled its capacity since the end of 2024

Notably, Eksim Energy finished last year with only 569 MW, data from the annual MW100 Turkey report showed. The Uzundere hydropower plant accounts for 63 MW. The rest was wind power, making the company sixth in the segment in Turkey in 2024.

In the Gevye district in Sakarya in northwestern Turkey, the utility tripled its wind farm’s capacity to 150.2 MW. The additional investment amounted to EUR 80 million. The entire facility, which generated its first megawatt-hour in 2020, cost EUR 195 million in total.

The Viranşehir PV system in Şanlıurfa in the country’s southeast has 191.3 MW in peak capacity. The investment was worth USD 150 million.

“Our next focus will be to accelerate our integrated energy storage investments, in addition to our power plant projects, and to expand hybrid generation, where we combine solar and wind power in suitable locations, Chief Executive Officer Arkın Akbay.