Turkey increased its total installed capacity to 22,648 MW with the 2.8 GW new solar energy installation it carried out in the first five months of 2025. According to the data announced by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, this growth recorded in just five months shows that Turkey continues its momentum in solar energy without slowing down.
Turkey installed 2.8 GW of solar energy in five months
The solar energy capacity, which was 19.8 GW at the end of 2024, exceeded 22.6 GW with an increase of 2.8 GW as of May 2025. In the last year, a total of 7.6 GW of solar energy investments were put into operation.
A significant portion of this growth was made up of systems installed on commercial and industrial rooftops. Juan Monge Artacho, an officer at the international energy analysis firm Wood Mackenzie, stated that the increases in electricity tariffs directly affected investments in the commercial segment.
As of May, Turkey’s total renewable energy installed capacity reached 72,492 MW. Solar energy has a share of over 31 percent of this total. The largest share is hydroelectric power plants with 32,284 MW.
Wind energy has reached 13,391 MW, geothermal 1,734 MW and biomass 2,435 MW. Renewable resources represent 60.8 percent of the total electricity generation capacity.
Evaluating the investments made, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar stated that the electricity generated from solar and wind power plants alone has reached a level that will meet the annual needs of all households in Turkey. Bayraktar said that approximately 80 billion dollars of investment is required to reach the targeted 120 GW of solar and wind energy capacity by 2035.
In line with this goal, it is planned to allocate at least 2 GW of new capacity to the private sector each year through a tender method. The next solar energy tender will be held in October, and the wind energy tender in November. In the latest solar tender, a total capacity of 800 MW was shared among different projects. The final price in this tender was determined as 0.0325 US dollars/kWh.
This rapid expansion in solar energy supports both national energy supply security and indicates a critical turning point in terms of Turkey’s carbon neutrality goals. This determined momentum towards renewable resources is accelerating Turkey’s pace of energy transformation.
