DECISION BRIEF
What this desk follows
YEKA (Yenilenebilir Enerji Kaynak Alanları) is the state’s competitive allocation route for large solar and wind capacity, run by the Energy and Natural Resources Ministry with a published specification and application fee for each round.
Licensed generation runs through EPDK, with the licence conditions and amendments that follow it. Unlicensed generation is the self-consumption route most industrial companies actually use, and its practical limit is the capacity the distribution company publishes as available.
Storage has become the hinge. Storage-linked applications, battery manufacturing capacity and the import duty treatment of cells all changed the economics of a Turkish solar or wind project faster than the tariff did.
Permitting sits across the whole set: zoning and building permits for wind and solar moved to the Energy Ministry, and grid connection repayment rules were revised — both tracked in the coverage below.
Why it matters for Turkish business
Built for: Industrial self-generators, IPPs and their advisers, equipment suppliers, and finance teams underwriting Turkish renewable assets.
For an industrial company, the decision is rarely "which technology" and almost always "which door": a YEKA round is a bid with a specification and a fee, unlicensed self-consumption is a distribution-company process, and a licensed project is a multi-year development.
Grid availability, not sunshine or wind, is the binding constraint in most Turkish provinces right now. TEİAŞ and distribution-company capacity announcements are therefore the operative signal, and they are in the coverage below.
Financing follows the same split: green credit lines and export credits are available for equipment and self-consumption projects, which is why this hub and the funding hub are read together.
What to do next
- Establish which allocation route applies before doing anything else — the diligence, the timetable and the counterparty are different in each.
- Check published available capacity for your distribution region before sizing an unlicensed project.
- For YEKA rounds, read the specification and the application fee change together; the fee is a screening device as much as a cost.
- Model storage explicitly. A solar or wind case built without a storage scenario is being written against last year’s rules.
Coverage boundary
Electricity market price forecasting and PPA pricing are not covered here, and this hub does not track individual licence transactions except where they change the rules.