Featured in India doubles down – 04-2016

Coming home to roost

Turkey: The Turkish PV sector is expected to reach up to 1 GW of cumulative solar PV installations by the end of 2016, which is not exactly the most astonishing news given the countrys acute need for power and its great solar resource. Nevertheless, it is an encouraging step. So, what are the factors that are going to drive or delay Turkeys PV take off?

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Ilias Tsagas

15 Mar 2016

According to data provided to pv magazine by Solarbaba, the Turkish Solar Energy Society, Turkey’s cumulative capacity of PV at the end of last year was 248 MW. In 2015, Solarbaba said, the country added approximately 150 MW of new PV capacity, which is not a high amount but certainly exceeded the single-figure megawatts added …

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