Turkish grid operator TEIAS has announced that about 398 MW of new solar PV systems were added to the grid in Q1 2021. Of this capacity, about 101.4 MW was added in April. The additions brought the country’s total installed solar capacity to 7,065.4 MW. A huge portion of this capacity is from rooftop PV additions with 146 MW from the YEKA tenders.
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The Q1 figures are somewhat impressive given that in 2020 the installed PV capacity was only 672 MW, a 27 per cent decrease from the 2019 total additions of 932MW. In May last year, Turkey introduced net metering. This has resulted in a shift in PV addition as more self-consumption and net-metered rooftop PV are being added over traditional utility-scale PV projects.
According to the Solar Energy Roadmap report published by the Turkish PV association in 2019, it is estimated that Turkey could deploy 38GW of solar PV by 2030.