The exemption will relate to purchasing, manufacturing and importing of components to build renewable energy power projects.

The French government will provide an unspecified sum to conduct the feasibility study for the giant PV project.

Solar, however, was excluded from a second energy auction planned for December, which will select wind, biomass, hydro, coal and natural gas-fired combined cycle plants. The Brazilian association ABSOLAR has urged the government to include PV in this auction too.

The plan will affect 66 employees of the division for photovoltaic systems and energy saving.

The country’s cumulative installed PV capacity has now surpassed 700 MW, while total renewable energy generation has reached 1.46 GW.

The program will provide rebates that cover up to 50% of the cost for purchasing and installing a storage system coupled to a PV system.

According to provisional numbers provided by the government, large-scale solar plants have totaled 145 MW at the end of June, while PV distributed generation has reached 92 MW.

The program will be managed by the country’s state-owned utility Latvenergo and will be open to rooftop PV projects not exceeding 10 kW in size.

The floating solar array was deployed in Istanbul’s Lake Büyükçekmec. The project was realized by a subsidiary of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

The project includes the construction of $21.8 million solar plant and several green buildings powered by renewable energies.