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IC Enterra puts 136 MW solar power plant into operation in Turkey

IC Enterra 136 MW solar power plant operation Turkey

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March 4, 2025

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One of the biggest solar farms in Turkey came online in Hatay province. IC Enterra gradually completed the Erzin-2 facility of 136 MW in peak capacity, for which it won a power purchase agreement at a YEKA government auction in 2022. The firm said it would complete its second photovoltaic park in the country this year as part of a hybrid power plant.

The first part of the YEKA Erzin-2 solar farm in Turkey was put into operation in August. IC Enterra, part of IC Holding, said that it has completed the facility of 136 MW in peak capacity in the meantime. It has a 100 MW grid connection.

The firm won a power purchase agreement and a 30-year concession at the government’s renewable energy auction in August 2022. The mechanism is called Renewable Energy Zones – REZ or, in Turkish, YEKA.

YEKA Erzin-2 is on municipal land

The site is in the municipality of Erzin in Hatay province near the Mediterranean coast and the border with Syria. It takes up 200 hectares of pastureland belonging to the local authority.

Expected average output, 248 GWh per year, would be equivalent to the electricity needs of 155,000 Turkish households, the company calculated.

IC Enterra took out a loan last year for investment

IC Enterra secured a USD 32.5 million loan last year from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for YEKA Erzin-2. It is one of the biggest in Turkey. The firm revealed in August that it intended to start building and complete hybrid PV plant Bağıştaş of 61 MW in 2025.

There are also nine hydropower plants that IC Enterra runs. Their combined capacity is 388 MW. One of the hydroelectric plants is also in Bağıştaş, a village in Erzincan province in Eastern Anatolia.

The company is active in Italy as well.

Turkey so far held auctions for 7.85 GW through the YEKA wind and solar power scheme. Tenders for photovoltaics amounted to 3.8 GW. Until now, 1.5 GW was commissioned in the solar power segment, while projects for 630 MW in total were canceled.

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