The Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister announced yesterday a long-anticipated move to develop 1 GW of PV capacity in the Konya region. The tender is linked to the developer "using domestic technology, R&D studies and employing 80% domestic engineers," according to reporting from Dailysabah. The project, if completed at the one site as reported, would be one of the largest PV power plant projects globally and the largest in Turkey by a considerable distance. Turkey's cumulative installed PV capacity is expected to pass 1 GW in 2016 or early 2017. The 1 GW Karapinar project will be developed under a 15-year PPA with the Turkish government, and is expected to begin feeding electricity into the grid by 2018. The government expects the project to lead to an investment of around $1.3 billion. U.S., Chinese and European companies are said to have ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...