January 17, 2011
By Paul Gipe
Turkey's parliament has revised its limited feed law with adoption of a
similarly limited policy.
Turkey has had a limited feed-in tariff policy since 2005. The previous
policy paid the equivalent of $0.07 per kWh for wind energy for a period of
seven years. By international standards, the policy was a failure.
Early this year the Turkish parliament adopted a new feed-in tariff policy of
equally limited duration, ten years, and equally limited objectives, 600 MW of
total capacity. As before, tariffs are limited as well.
The tariffs for solar photovoltaics (PV), the most costly of the new
renewable technologies, are only $0.13 per kWh, a third of that in Germany.
One departure from previous policy, Turkey will now offer incentives or bonus
payments for hardware "Made in Turkey". Solar PV systems made in Turkey would
qualify for a bonus payment of nearly $0.07 per kWh.
Industry observers have widely panned the new program as insufficient to
create the volume necessary to attract manufacturing.
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