Türkiye allocates 785 MW of solar capacity in YEKA GES-2026 tender

The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources said that 44 applications from 19 companies were received for the solar-based YEKA GES-2026 tenders held on 3 November 2026. Connection capacity totalling 785 megawatts across 11 sites in Denizli, Ankara, Konya, Kahramanmaraş, Malatya, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Batman and Elazığ was allocated to investors.

Winning companies will be able to sell the electricity they produce on the free market for 60 months from the contract signing date. After that, electricity produced over 20 years will be supplied to the transmission system at a price of 3.25 euro cents per kilowatt-hour. Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said the results brought a total contribution fee of 37.9 million euros, including VAT, for the 11 sites.

Bayraktar said that together with the YEKA RES-2026 wind tenders, a total capacity of 2,285 megawatts has been allocated across 18 separate sites. He said this will bring 1.9 billion dollars in new investment to the country and, by producing 6.1 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity a year, will avoid imports of about 1.22 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.