Turkey awards pre-licences for 744 MW of renewables storage space
- Turkey has awarded 12 pre-licences for the installation of renewables-based energy storage space projects with an overall capacity of 744 MW, Mustafa Yilmaz, the head of the nation's Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), informed Anadolu Agency on Saturday.
According to Yilmaz, an overall of 4,369 applications for such projects have actually been submitted to day, corresponding to a total capacity of about 221 GW. This includes some 113.5 GW for centers that will certainly keep wind and 107.5 GW to store solar energy.
EMRA's head has noted that the newly-awarded pre-licences are expected to lead to a complete investment of USD 1.5 billion (EUR 1.36 bn).
In November 2022, new laws were released in the Official Gazette to make it possible for energy storage designers to acquire preliminary licences to likewise mount matching wind or solar energy generation capacity. Speaking at the Turkish Wind Energy Congress a couple of days earlier, Yilmaz claimed he expected this step to attract an investment of approximately USD 25 billion.
Today, Turkey's mounted renewables capacity consists of virtually 11.5 GW of wind as well as regarding 9.8 GW of solar.
