Saudi Arabia Backs Turkey’s Rapid Renewable Energy Buildout
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have announced ambitious plans to cooperate on renewable energy, as both countries aim to deploy vast amounts of clean power. Saudi Arabia has already invested heavily in Turkey’s solar power sector and aims to deepen its energy partnership with Turkey.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: Turkey and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement to add a further 3 GW of renewable energy capacity in Turkey, bringing the country’s total planned capacity to 5 GW, Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced in August.
- Fact 2: Turkey has “quadrupled its installed electricity capacity, from 32,000 megawatts to 126,000 megawatts,” said Bayraktar, adding that the country had commissioned around 95 GW of new capacity over the past 24 years.
- Fact 3: Domestic natural gas production in the Black Sea is set to double in 2026 and quadruple by 2028.
- Fact 4: In February, Saudi Arabia announced plans to invest $2 billion in the construction of two solar farms in Turkey, with a total capacity of 2 GW, following the signing of an agreement between Bayraktar and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have announced ambitious plans to cooperate on renewable energy, as both countries aim to deploy vast amounts of clean power. Saudi Arabia has already invested heavily in Turkey’s solar power sector and aims to deepen its energy partnership with Turkey.
Meanwhile, Turkey is also continuing to expand its oil and gas production and discussing the potential for new energy routes linking the Middle East and Europe. Turkey and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement to add a further 3 GW of renewable energy capacity in Turkey, bringing the country’s total planned capacity to 5 GW, Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced in August. Bayraktar emphasised that Turkey has “almost accomplished a century’s worth of work” under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s leadership, with major progress in renewable energy.
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