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• The Karapınar Solar Energy Plant, created on a 20-million-square-meter land in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, Turkey, has begun producing power virtually 3 years ahead of its expected completion day. Kalyon Holding Energy Group executive Murtaza Ata specified that "we will finish the building and construction of this center in 32 months. Solar panels with an ability of 1,300 megawatts will certainly be developed. The works will certainly be finished by May or June 2023. We will certainly generate 2.6 million kilowatt-hours [kWh] of power annually when it's completed."

Thus far, 10,200 of the prepared 3.5 million photovoltaic panels have actually been set up in the field, according to Ata, who additionally claimed that 4 MW of power is being moved to the nationwide grid after Energy and also Natural Resources Ministry authorities gave the last authorizations last weekend. The quantity of power produced will raise progressively as the construction gathers speed with the installation of 104,000 photovoltaic panels in a month, he added. The solar panels have a residential manufacturing rate of 75 percent.

Turkey opened its very first integrated photovoltaic panel facility in Ankara's Başkent Organized Industrial Zone in a high-profile event on Aug. 19. The US$ 400-million Solar Technologies Factory was likewise built by Turkish power as well as construction giant Kalyon Holding. The factory, which will produce ingot, wafer, component, and also cell systems with a capacity of 500 MW annually, will subtract $100 from the nation's annual solar panel import bill.

The US$ 1 billion Karapınar solar energy plant was built by Kalyon Holding in cooperation with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC). When completed, the facility will enhance solar power's share in power generation 25 percent, according to the information from the power ministry. Turkey's total electrical power manufacturing was around 27,462 million kWh in July, according to the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK).

In July, Turkey produced its electrical energy from a number of sources; 25.2 percent from hydropower, 24.1 percent from natural gas, 21.9 percent from import coal, and 12.4 percent from lignite. Wind, geothermal, biomass, difficult coal, asphaltite, solar power, as well as gas oil created the remaining share.