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Turkey’s Sabanci Holding has taken another decisive step in its North-American renewables push, buying the 156-MW Pepper Solar project now taking shape in Fort Bend County, Texas. The deal, completed by its Boston-based arm Sabanci Renewables Inc., gives the Turkish conglomerate full control of Pepper Solar Farm LLC—holder of the project’s licence and grid interconnection rights—according to a filing with Borsa Istanbul on Tuesday. Construction crews have already broken ground, and commercial operation is pencilled in for the third quarter of 2027. Once the first electrons flow, Pepper Solar will supply enough clean power for roughly 30,000 Texan homes while offsetting an estimated 210,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year. The acquisition lifts Sabanci Renewables’ US portfolio to 660 MW of solar capacity. Its flagship 272-MWdc Cutlass II plant, also near Houston, entered service earlier this year, while the 232-MWdc Oriana project is slated to switch on before the end of July. All three sites sit within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market, which has become a magnet for corporate clean-energy buyers thanks to abundant sunshine, available land, and streamlined permitting. Sabanci framed the deal as part of its broader strategy to scale “the new economy”—shorthand for ventures driven by digitalisation, energy transition, and sustainability. “Expanding our presence in the United States not only diversifies our generation base but positions us at the heart of one of the world’s most dynamic solar markets,” the company said in its statement. The move also signals confidence in utility-scale solar economics even as equipment prices and financing costs fluctuate. Projects like Pepper Solar can tap a 30 % investment tax credit under the Inflation Reduction Act, with additional bonuses for domestic content and energy-community siting. Sabanci, whose interests span banking, cement, and retail, first entered the US renewables arena in 2023. Analysts note that topping the gigawatt mark would give the group critical mass to negotiate power-purchase agreements and hedge its merchant exposure. By folding Pepper Solar into its pipeline, Sabanci edges closer to that milestone—and underscores its ambition to compete on the global clean-energy stage with Texas as its proving ground.

Turkey-based INTEC Energy Solutions and Chinese firm CHINT Solar said on Tuesday they are partnering to create a 154 MWp solar power plant, the largest in Romania, after authorizing an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) agreement with Israeli renewable resource projects programmer Econergy.

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Climate Ventures on board as a new backer. The climate-tech investment arm of Turkey’s Sabanci Group joins a roster that already includes Hamilton Lane,

a 288-MWp module order for Texas projects from the U.S. green-energy arm of Turkey’s Sabanci Holding, underscoring Texas’s breakneck utility-scale

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North Macedonia's federal government stated it has actually signed contracts with Bulgarian solar energy group Solarpro Holding [BUL:0 S8] and Turkish Fortis Energy Electric for the building and construction of photovoltaic nuclear power plant of combined 100 MW worth 70 million euro ($83.6 million).

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Turkey’s Sabanci hired Empact Technologies to manage tax-credit compliance for its U.S. solar portfolio, underscoring how the Inflation Reduction Act has made documentation central to financing. Meeting domestic-content, prevailing-wage, apprenticeship, energy-community and transferability rules now demands platforms that track evidence, standardize workflows, and produce audit-ready files for lenders, tax-equity investors and credit-transfer buyers.For international investors, outsourcing compliance cuts execution risk and preserves flexibility: projects with clean files move faster through transfers or refinancing and may win better pricing as confidence rises. Governance becomes a competitive edge in U.S. solar, shaping cost of capital and returns alongside hardware choices. How do rigorous IRA compliance platforms influence cost of capital and credit-transfer pricing? Latest global trend: renewables surpassed 30% of world electricity in 2023, with solar the largest annual capacity addition; 2024–2026 expected to accelerate on policy and manufacturing scale-up Cost dynamics: utility-scale solar PPA prices stabilizing after 2022–23 spikes from polysilicon, freight, and interest rates; modest declines expected as supply chains normalize Grid bottlenecks: interconnection queues exceed 2 TW in North America; reforms (cluster studies, tighter readiness screens, financial commitments) are shortening timelines in several ISOs Storage surge: lithium-iron-phosphate dominates new deployments; hybrid solar-plus-storage increasingly bids as firm, four-hour blocks; long-duration pilots (iron-air, flow, thermal) moving to first-of-a-kind scale Transmission: HVDC backbone proposals advancing to move remote wind/solar to load centers; undergrounded DC in highway/rail corridors gaining traction to ease siting risk Offshore wind: supply chain localization (monopiles, nacelles, cables) reduces currency and logistics exposure; floating platforms targeting deepwater West Coast, Mediterranean, and Japan Onshore wind: taller towers and longer blades unlock low-wind sites; repowering of 10–15-year-old fleets boosts capacity factors and extends life with minimal new land use Permitting reforms: “shot clocks,” concurrent reviews, and digital environmental assessments cutting timelines; community benefit agreements standardizing local value sharing Domestic manufacturing: rapid expansions in modules, cells, inverters, and trackers; nacelle, blade, and tower factories reopening near ports and rail hubs to cut lead times Supply chain resilience: diversified polysilicon, wafer, and cell sourcing; traceability tools (blockchain, mass-balance audits) to meet import compliance rules Corporate procurement: 24/7 carbon-free energy contracts growing; granular certificates tied to hourly emissions delivering higher climate impact than annual RECs Financial structures: tax credit transferability and direct pay broadening investor base; merchant exposure hedged via basis-insured PPAs and storage arbitrage Land use: agrivoltaics scaling for specialty crops and pasture; dual-use designs (elevated arrays, wider row spacing) maintain yields and biodiversity Environmental safeguards: avian-safe siting, bat deterrents, and curtailment algorithms; solar panel recycling and wind blade repurposing hubs expanding Emerging tech: perovskite-silicon tandems nearing pilot manufacturing; high-efficiency n-type TOPCon and heterojunction gaining share in utility builds Hydrogen: co-located electrolyzers soaking midday solar, providing grid services; e-fuel offtake from shipping and aviation anchoring project finance Demand-side orchestration: virtual power plants aggregating HVAC, EVs, and batteries; dynamic tariffs and real-time APIs enabling flexible load Buildings: heat pumps outselling gas furnaces in several markets; thermal storage (ice, phase-change) paired with rooftop PV to shave peaks Transportation: EV managed charging aligns with wind and solar profiles; bidirectional charging pilots provide distribution-level backup Data centers: hyperscalers signing firmed clean power with storage and geothermal; waste-heat reuse and on-site microgrids reduce grid stress

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