Türkiye president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan officially inaugurated Europe’s biggest solar power plant built at a single site on Tuesday, 2nd May. The Kalyon Karapınar Solar Power Plant, located in the central province of Konya, boasts an installed capacity of 1350 MW.
“Türkiye will no longer be a country in need of energy resources, but will rather be a country capable of energy export,” the president said at the event.
With over 3.2 million solar panels, this project will generate around 3 million KWh of electricity each year, which is sufficient to meet the power needs of two million people. Additionally, the plant is expected to save up to $450 million worth of fossil fuels.
The solar plant covers 20 million square meters of an area that receives the highest sun exposure. It is now operational and will help prevent $1.5 million tons of Carbon emissions annually.
The plant was developed at an investment of $1 billion by Turkish conglomerate, Kalyon Energy, as part of the country’s Renewable Energy Resource Zone (YEKA) initiative. YEKA was launched to promote the development of renewable energy facilities in areas where the concentration of at least one RE resource is high.
The installation of this massive solar plant has increased the share of solar energy in Türkiye’s total energy production by 20%. Moreover, renewable energy accounts for over half of the country’s installed power capacity.
Solar power installation capacity has now reached 9,820 MW. Further, reports suggest that over 1 GW of wind and solar capacity will be added to the country’s RE portfolio in 2023.
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Resource: Daily Sabah
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