Featured in Turkish market at a crossroads – 03-2019

Mega projects, mega problems

The clouds gathering over Turkey’s 1 GW solar park in Konya, the first YEKA tender, are dominating discussions among PV players in the country. Developments surrounding the Konya tender illustrate the Turkish solar market’s challenges, as the country’s unsteady economy and its policy preference for local manufacturing appear to be acting as a break on installations.

By

Ilias Tsagas

12 Mar 2019

Image: Wagner Solar

Turkey’s 1 GW solar farm at Konya was meant to be the poster child for the country’s PV industry. The project was auctioned in March 2017 and included strict local content requirements, which called for Turkish manufacturing of PV ingots, wafers, cells, and modules.Despite these requirements, the tender attracted bids from four consortia, of which …

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