4 megawatts of energy is transferred to the grid in Karapınar SPP
Electricity is supplied to the grid with the commissioning of 4 megawatts of installed power at the Karapınar Solar Power Plant (GES), which will be built on an area of 20 million square meters in Konya.
Konya
Kalyon Energy, which won the
Renewable Energy Resource Areas Solar Energy (YEKA GES-1) tender , opened by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and held on March 20, 2017, with a bid of 6.99 dollars/cent per kilowatt
hour , continues its work in Karapınar.
In Karapınar SPP , the panels produced at the Kalyon Solar Technologies Factory, which was opened last month with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, are being assembled.
In the power plant, which will have a total installed capacity of 1000 megawatts and will be built on a 20 million square meter land, electricity is supplied to the grid with the commissioning of the installed power of 4 megawatts.
When completed, it will meet the electricity needs of 2 million people annually.
The power plant, which aims to install approximately 104 thousand panels every month, will meet the electricity needs of 2 million people annually when completed.
The panels, which are produced at the Kalyon Solar Technologies Factory and have a high efficiency of 22 percent, will follow the sun from sunrise to sunset. Thus, it will produce 12 percent more electricity.
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Ata, stating that a dream came true with Karapınar GES, reminded that the installed panels reached a domestic contribution rate of over 75 percent.
Explaining that a 1300 megawatt panel will be installed in the area, Ata said:
"Electrical energy installed power is 1000 megawatts, but we will put the 1300 megawatt panel into operation as we build it step by step. There will be a solar power plant at a distance that the eye can't see. A huge power plant with a length of 13 kilometers and a width of 1.5-2 kilometers. We installed 10 thousand 300 panels of 4 megawatts produced in our factory. and we commissioned this section. Currently, the 4 megawatt panel produces electricity. We supply this electricity from the switchyard to the national grid. Ministry officials also accepted this facility. Depending on the position of the sun, 4 megawatts of electricity is produced in an hour."
Stating that the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources provided all kinds of support from the beginning of the project, Ata expressed that the YEKA project is one of the most strategic projects in Turkey.
"It will be a man-made facility seen from space"
Expressing that it is aimed to install all the panels in the power plant in June 2023, Ata said:
"Our factory has a monthly production capacity of 500 megawatts of panels. We will install 1300 megawatts of panels here. We will have completed this place in about 32 months. We said 'Bismillah' and this is the first inverter we commissioned. By Allah's permission, we will fill an area of 20 million square meters with these panels. This is like the Great Wall of China. "It will be a man-made facility seen from space. It is Turkey's first gigantic facility. It takes about an hour to drive around it."
You can actually see it from space!
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Notes:
Entire Output, when finished in Q4 2022, will be 1000Megawatts for 1 Billion USD investment.
In Comparison: Akkuyu Nuclear Plant has 4 Units each putting out 1114 Megawatts. with 5 billion USD per Unit (20B all 4)