Kalyon PV begins production at new TOPCon solar cell factory in Turkey

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Kalyon PV has launched a new 1 GW solar cell factory in Ankara, raising its total cell production capacity to 2.1 GW</span></p><p>Turkish solar module manufacturer <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/magazine-archive/turkey-goes-vertical/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Kalyon PV</a> announced it started manufacturing activities at its new solar cell factory in Ankara, <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/key-takeaways-from-solarex-istanbul-3/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Turkey</a>.</p>
<p>In a filing with the Turkish stock exchange, the company said the manufacturing facility has a capacity of 1 GW. &#8220;<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">With the implementation of this investment, our cell production capacity has now reached 2.1 GW per year,&#8221; the statement reads. </span></span></span></p>
<p>The company currently operates in Ankara another 1.9 GW module factory including a 1.1 GW cell production. It also operates 1 GW of ingot and wafer production capacity, respectively.</p>
<p>More details about the new manufacturing facility were not revealed.</p>
<p>The module manufacturing facility was commissioned with an initial capacity of 500 MW in <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/08/20/erdogan-opens-ingot-to-module-solar-factory-in-ankara/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">August 2020</a>. It was part of a wider project involving the construction of a 1 GW solar plant 260 km south of the Turkish capital, in Konya.</p>
<p>The project was tendered by the Turkish government in 2017. A consortium formed by Konya Solar and Hanhwa Q Cells was the winner, but the South Korea-based solar manufacturer walked away from the deal a few months later.</p>
<p>Chinese state-owned conglomerate <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/10/29/kalyon-enerji-finds-chinese-partner-for-500-mw-module-fab-in-turkey/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">China Electronics Technology Group Corp.</a> (CETC) replaced Hanhwa Q Cells as a <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/10/29/kalyon-enerji-finds-chinese-partner-for-500-mw-module-fab-in-turkey/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">new project partner</a> in October 2019. The Turkish government decided to subsidize the facility in September 2019, with a TRL 1.99 billion ($51 million) “<a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/09/06/big-money-for-turkeys-500-mw-solar-factory/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">super incentive</a>.”</p>
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