Projects in Turkey for wind power with storage pass important milestones

Projects for wind farms with storage or adding batteries to existing facilities are advancing on a large scale in Turkey. Polat Enerji selected Rolls-Royce for a 132 MWh battery system that would be added to the Göktepe wind park. Traktek Enerji and Kontrolmatik got their EIA studies approved for investments that would include major BESS units.

Soon after completing a small battery storage system within its Soma wind park, the largest in Turkey, Polat Enerji signed a contract with Rolls-Royce to integrate its mtu QG EnergyPack with the Göktepe wind power plant. The location is near Yalova in northwestern Turkey. The battery energy storage system will have 132 MWh in capacity, the update revealed.

Polat’s Göktepe facility has 121 MW in capacity. The utility said the battery supply deal is the largest in the country so far.

Polat’s deal with Rolls-Royce is the largest in Turkey so far

Turkey has given priority in 2022 to renewable electricity projects with storage that have matching capacity and operating power, respectively. Projects have piled up so a massive deployment of such hybrid power plants is likely. It would substantially contribute to balancing in the wind and solar power segment and overall grid flexibility.

Earlier this month, Polat Enerji signed an agreement with SolarToday for a battery energy storage system (BESS) with 12.8 MW in capability and a capacity of 15.2 MWh. They will add it to the Ege wind park of 15.2 MW. The contractor tasked iNOVAT with integrating and commissioning the batteries.

Traktek to install 50 MW wind park with matching storage

Traktek Enerji has just received approval for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) study for a wind power plant of 50 MW with energy storage. The location is in Enez in Edirne province in the European part of Turkey.

The wind park would consist of 12 turbines of 3 MW each and four 3.5 MW machines. The plan is to integrate a BESS of 50 MW and 50 MWh.

Kontrolmatik plans Turkey’s biggest wind power, battery combo

Late last month, Kontrolmatik said it completed the EIA process for the Çorlu wind power project with energy storage. The company revealed its subsidiary Progresiva would pair 250 MW from a total of 50 turbines with a BESS of 1 GWh, Turkey’s first gigawatt-scale facility of its kind.

The company expects the Çorlu wind park to generate 875 GWh per year. The site is in Tekirdağ province, also in East Thrace – European Turkey.

Polat’s Soma facility has 288 MW in electricity production capacity. Recently the wind park got a storage unit of 4 MW and 4 MWh.