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Turkey selects first hydropower reservoir for YEKA floating solar power auction

Turkey first hydropower reservoir YEKA floating solar power auction

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July 1, 2025

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The reservoir of state-owned Electricity Generation Corp.’s Demirköprü hydropower plant is the first proposed area for Turkey’s planned floating solar power auction. The YEKA support mechanism provides grid permits for several decades and a period with guaranteed prices.

Within its ambition to grow the solar and wind power capacity to 120 GW in total by 2035, the Turkish government is counting on floating photovoltaics as well. The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources proposed the reservoir of the Demirköprü hydropower plant for the first dedicated auction for the technology.

Detailed studies of the area are underway under the framework for the Renewable Energy Zones (REZ) state support mechanism, the announcement revealed. The scheme is better known by its Turkish acronym YEKA.

Demirköprü is on the Gediz river, east of Izmir, in Manisa province. Its owner is state-owned Electricity Generation Corp. (Elektrik Üretim A.Ş. – EÜAŞ). The 69 MW hydropower plant’s dam holds a reservoir with a regular surface of just under 48 square kilometers.

The Demirköprü hydropower plant’s reservoir spans almost 48 square kilometers under regular conditions

The country’s second floating solar power plant came online early this year. The only other such facilities in the region that Balkan Green Energy News covers are in Romania and Albania.

Turkey held auctions for 7.85 GW in total for wind and solar power, of which 3.8 GW for PV projects. Winners get grid permits for several decades and a period with guaranteed prices.

The country’s total electricity production capacity reached 119.3 GW by the end of May, of which 72.5 GW ran on renewable sources. Solar power accounted for 22.6 GW, compared to 20.4 GW in mid-February.

The ministry selected the first offshore wind power zones in August 2023.

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