The Turkish company Kalyon Holding has completed the construction of a 1,348 MW solar power plant located in Karapınar, Konya Province (central Türkiye), which will be formally inaugurated before the end of April 2023. Kalyon Holding had won Türkiye’s first solar power auction (YEKA-1 GES) in 2017 to develop a solar park of 1.35 GW in peak capacity. Construction started in 2020. The solar plant, which comprises about 3.5 million solar panels and spans 1,920 hectares, will be able to supply electricity to about 2 million Turkish households. Kalyon Holding installed the Konya Karapınar plant using panels from its own solar panel factory, which opened in 2020 and was developed in partnership with China Electronic Technology Group Corporation. The facility had an initial capacity of 500 MW per year which was boosted to 2 GW.
At the end of 2021, solar represented 8% of Türkiye’s installed capacity with 7.8 GW and 4% of its power generation with 14 TWh.
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