L R AS Published on Sunday 30 August 2020 - n° 329 - Categories:European countries, setting up abroad
Turkey will have two integrated PV production units; what about Europe?
An integrated production unit (from silicon to panels) has just been inaugurated in Turkey by Kalyon Solar Technologies despite the abandonment of Hanwha Q-Cells from the project. Located near Ankara,
it will initially have an annual production capacity of 500 MW, which will increase to 1 GW in the future.
The March 2017 call for tenders also includes a 1 GW solar field located 260 km from the capital, which will be equipped with panels from the plant.
Renewable energy developer Eko Yenilenebilir Enerjiler AS began building its own 1 GW vertically integrated panel factory in Ni?de, Central Anatolia, in March 2019. Turkey wants to become a solar panel manufacturing centre
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/08/20/erdogan-opens-ingot-to-module-solar-factory-in-ankara/
PV Magazine of 20 August
Editor's note One may wonder why Turkey is building integrated panel production units and why there is not the same industrial will in the 27 countries of the European Union! It is not the industrial size but the will that makes the difference. Perhaps there are political guarantees in the form of customs protection that there are not in the EU!
