Recent developments in photovoltaic electricity in Turkey and a site dependent analysis
Mustafa Engin Başoğlu Bekir Çakır
AbstractTurkey's electricity demand increases continuously due to the population growth and industrial development. For this reason, diversification of energy sources becomes an important requirement for Turkey, in order to provide security of energy supply and reliable and continuous energy. In this context, many changes have been made in electricity market and usage of renewable energy sources in electricity generation has been encouraged with many incentives in Turkey. It can be said that there is almost no barrier for investors in photovoltaic (PV) electricity. In this study, the latest status of PV electricity of Turkey and recent developments in renewable energy incentives are evaluated. Besides that, energy performance of a three phase grid-connected PV power system is evaluated by some commonly known indicators such as performance ratio, specific energy and yearly solar electricity etc. for technical feasibility of PV system. Besides that performance comparison of three different solar modules are made under İzmit, Kocaeli weather conditions.