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Experimental policies

Turkey’s PV market: Turkey has reached about 1 GW of solar PV installations, and 2016 was the PV sector’s best year so far. Furthermore, a recently announced tender for a mega 1 GW solar park in central Turkey adds to the expectation. Is such optimism justified? pv magazine examines why the Turkish Government’s policy experiments with the solar sector risk its fragile growth.

By

Ilias Tsagas

15 Mar 2017

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Turkey’s PV sector was late to kick off for such a sunny country. In late 2015, Turkey had installed only 248.8 MW of photovoltaic systems. According to the latest statistics published by Turkey’s ministry of energy and natural resources, the country’s PV sector added another 570.8 MW in 2016, which is an impressive 230% year-on-year …

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