Featured in Solar leads the European recovery – 06-2020

Turkey’s reimagined solar regulations

In 2020, Turkey has discovered the importance of small-scale distributed energy generation, along with energy efficiency. After deploying a range of strategies to allocate solar power plant capacities throughout almost 10 years of solar PV development, the introduction of new net-metering legislation for unlicensed rooftop solar power plants is proving effective in promoting “self-consumption,” write Stantec Turkey experts Selen Inal, Koray Goytan and Alican Ozden.
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Turkey’s PV story started in December 2010 with the revision of the Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources for the Purpose of Generating Electrical Energy Law (Law No: 5346) and the introduction of the Renewable Energy Resources Support Mechanism (YEKDEM), including feed-in-tariffs. Although the FITs were in place by the end of 2010, more significant development …

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