The south can unlock Türkiye’s solar ambitions

For Türkiye’s 2018-2022 licensed generation data “real-time-generation” web services of the Turkish power market operator’s (EPİAŞ) Transparency API are used. This data was then combined with electricity market production license data from the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) using fuzzy matching and checked manually. 

For unlicensed generation, EPDK’s monthly electricity generation reports are used.

The solar radiation statistics for the solar capacity map are based on Solargis data for Türkiye. Provincial averages were calculated by Ember via a Python script.

Unlicensed project application data is taken from the websites of individual electricity distribution companies. ADM Elektrik Dağıtım A.Ş., which covers Aydın, Denizli and Muğla, was not included in the calculations due to missing data. For Meram Elektrik Dağıtım A.Ş., which covers Konya, Aksaray, Niğde, Kırşehir, Nevşehir and Karaman, partial data was used as applications for January, March, June, July, August and September 2021 were not reported.