Turkey's renewable energy installed capacity reaches 45%

    According to the latest report released by the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) on the 5th, in 2019, renewable solar system for home gold coast energy accounted for 45.2% of Turkey's installed capacity, up from 44.7% in 2018.

    EMRA's "2019 Electricity Market Report" shows that Turkey's licensed installed capacity increased by 2.1% last year, reaching 84,957 MW. Natural gas accounts for the largest share at 30.5%, followed by hydropower (24.3%), lignite (11.9%) and imported coal (10.6%).

    Permitted power generation fell by 0.6% to 294251 GWh. Nearly 30.2% of the permitted electricity production comes from hydropower plants, followed by imported coal, natural gas and lignite power plants, which are 20.5%, 19.2% and 15.9%, respectively.

    The share of renewable energy in licensed electricity production has also increased substantially, from 30.7% in 2018 to 42.1% in 2019.

    Turkey’s unlicensed installed capacity also increased by 18.8% to 6309 MW, of which 92.3% came from solar power plants. Compared with 2018, unlicensed power generation increased by 19.7% to 9829 GWh.

    At the same time, Turkey’s electricity imports fell by 10.3% to 2.2 TWh. Among them, 88.7% came from Bulgaria, 11.2% came from Georgia, and 0.2% came from Greece.

    Turkey’s electricity exports also fell by 9.3% to 2.8 TWh. Turkey exported 95.7% to Greece and 4.3% to Bulgaria and Georgia.