Türkiye to tender 900 MW of solar

<p><a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/06/24/turkish-pv-keeps-growing-amid-policy-shift-financing-constraints/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Türkiye</a> will run a series of solar and wind energy tenders later this year covering 2.4 GW of new capacity, the country’s Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar, has announced.</p>

<p>Delivered under the country’s Renewable Energy Resource Area (YEKA) program, the tenders will cover 14 solar projects with a combined capacity of 900 MW, alongside seven wind energy tenders covering 1.5 GW.</p>

<p>According to an update from the country&#8217;s Ministry for Energy and Natural Resources, applications for the tenders must be submitted at the ministry’s headquarters between 10:00 and 12:00 on October 13. Following review of the applications, the ministry will announce location, date and times of each tender.</p>

<p>The initial ceiling price of each tender, of €0.055 ($0.063)/kWh, remains the same as the <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/08/turkiye-to-tender-850-mw-of-solar/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">previous YEKA tenders</a>. The floor price, set at €0.0325/kWh for the solar energy tenders and €0.0350 for the wind energy tenders, also remains unchanged.</p>

<p>If the floor price across all tenders is reached, the ministry says it will continue the competitions with a contribution increase based on a minimum starting price of €10,000/MW.</p>

<p>Türkiye’s YEKA tenders offer a free market sales period that will give winners the right to sell their electricity on the free market, covering 60 months for the solar projects and 72 months for the wind projects. After the free market sales period expires, a 20-year power purchase agreement based on the tender price will be put in place.</p>

<p>The 14 solar projects listed for this year&#8217;s tenders are located across the provinces of Ankara, Batman, Denizli, Konya, Malatya, Mardin, Diyarbakır, Elazığ and Kahramanmaraş.</p>

<p>The solar projects range in capacity from 25 MW up to 230 MW, with largest projects listed as the 230 MW Ankara, 200 MW Diyarbakır, 140 MW Ankara and 110 MW Konya solar plants.</p>

<p>While announcing this year’s procurement schedule, Bayraktar said Türkiye will continue to hold solar and wind tenders totaling at least 2 GW of new capacity each year as it works towards a target of deploying 120 GW of solar and wind by 2035.</p>

<p>Bayraktar added that total renewables capacity now stands at around 78 GW. As of the end of April, Türkiye’s solar capacity had surpassed <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/06/01/turkiye-adds-1-97-gw-of-solar-in-january-april/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">26.7 GW</a>.</p>

<p>The first round of tenders held under the YEKA auction mechanism took place in January and February last year and allocated <a href="https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/05/turkey-allocates-800-mw-in-pv-tender-with-final-price-of-0-0325-kwh/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">800 MW</a> of solar alongside 1.2 GW of wind.</p>
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