The country’s cumulative installed PV capacity has now
surpassed 1.5 GW, while another 500 MW is expected to be installed by the end
of 2017.
Turkey had reached 1,503 MW of installed PV capacity as of
the end of June 2017, according to statistics released by the Turkish solar
association Günder, which are based on the country’s Energy Market Regulatory
Board’s monthly Electrical Statistics Report.
According to these figures, in the first six months of the
year the newly installed PV power was around 553.2 MW. For comparison, full
year 2016 new additions total 656.6 MW. This means that this year’s PV
development will likely be the best ever recorded in the country. Furthermore,
Günder said it expects that Turkey’s installed PV capacity may cross the 2 GW
threshold by the end of this year, thus enabling deployment of more than 1 GW
of solar power.
If the current trend is confirmed, Turkey may become
Europe’s third largest PV market in 2017, after Germany and the UK, which are
both expected to surpass 2 GW of new solar capacity.
Of the cumulative installed capacity, 1,491.7 MW is
represented by unlicensed PV plants. Under the Turkish legislation, all solar
PV projects under 1 MW in size do not need to obtain a license from the Turkish
government. These means that all the plants included in this category are below
1 MW or are segmented into 1 MW sub-units. The remaining 12.9 MW is represented
by licensed PV capacity.
The country has set a target of 5 GW of solar PV capacity by
2023. Turkey’s
energy minister said in March that an auction for 1 GW of new solar PV
plants will also take place by the end of the summer, but plans have not been
announced yet. In March, South Korea’s Hanwha Q Cells and local Turkish firm
Kalyon Enerji a won
a 1 GW solar tender, offering to sell the generated electricity at a
feed-in tariff of $0.0699 per kWh.
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