Turkey

Turkey’s latest renewable energy tender received 77 applications from 38 different companies across eight available solar projects, including the country’s first floating PV plant. Winners will be announced before the end of the year.

Astronergy Europe says its new venture with Alfa Solar will build an integrated cell and wafer plant with 2.5 GW of initial capacity in Turkey.

Researchers in the Middle East have developed a fuzzy logic controller that simultaneously optimizes the tilt angle of PV systems and performs maximum power point tracking (MPPT). Year-long simulations indicate that the proposed approach increases power generation by approximately 20%.

Researchers have modeled a hybrid financing scheme combining contracted and merchant components to improve the bankability of PV-battery energy storage system (PV-BESS) assets, using a Bayesian LSTM forecast integrated with a MILP optimization model to assess performance.

An international team of researchers led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology has fabricated a triple junction perovskite-perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell that achieved a world record efficiency for this cell architecture. The device incorporates stabilized perovskites that ensure improved performance and stability.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB) have each contributed $32.5 million toward a senior debt financing package for a 100 MW solar project in southern Turkey.

Turkiye’s next renewable energy tenders plan to allocate 850 MW of solar alongside 1,150 MW of wind across November and December. A ceiling price of €0.055 ($0.065)/kWh has been set, alongside floor prices of €0.0325/kWh for the solar tenders and €0.0350 for the wind tenders.

Türkiye’s cumulative solar capacity surpassed 23 GW in June, according to figures from energy thinktank Ember, exceeding the country’s target for 2025. However, a lack of connection capacity for future projects is threatening to slow deployment rates in the short to medium term.

An international researc team has included an interlocked self-assembled monolayer in perovskite indoor PV to enhance its stability and durability. Fabricating cells, mini modules, and a prototype device of an electronic price tag, the novel structure was tested. It was found to exhibit a lifetime approaching 6,000 hours.

Researchers in Turkey tested a novel heat sink design to cool insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) arrays in solar inverters. They found that it reduced module temperatures by more than 6 C in lab experiments.