Turkey: free grid capacity for unlicensed solar and wind at distribution level fell by 124 MW in a month, to 501 MW

Turkish transmission operator TEİAŞ published on 3 November, under decision No. 14353 of 26 February 2026 by the regulator EPDK, three updated documents on unlicensed generation: the evaluation report on September’s applications for transmission connection, the map of remaining capacity at transmission level and the table of remaining capacity by transformer substation at distribution level, all dated 2 November.

The figures. The outlet Yeşil Haber compared the distribution table with the one dated 1 October. Total capacity still available for allocation fell from 625.101 MWe to 501.088 MWe, a drop of 124.013 MWe or about 19.8%. Of the 1,132 entries, 100 declined and 29 fell to zero; none increased. The first distribution table for 2026, published on 2 March, totalled 2,000 MWe, so roughly a quarter remains.

Where it fell. The largest drop was at the Karaman OSB substation, where all 29 MWe disappeared, about 23% of the monthly decline. The 13 entries on busbars of organised industrial zones (OSB) accounted for 58.87 MWe, nearly 47% of the decline. The table does not show whether the decrease stems from new allocations or from revisions based on system conditions, Yeşil Haber stresses.

Fragmented capacity. Of the 1,132 entries, 620 have zero capacity. Of the remaining 512, half have less than 1 MWe and only five have 5 MWe or more, the largest being 12 MWe at the Azot (Frigya) substation in Kütahya.

Transmission. At transmission level the map is unchanged: 38.3 MWe in four regions – 14.1 MWe in the Erzincan area, 13.8 MWe in the Elazığ area, 5.4 MWe in the Konya area and 5 MWe in the Eskişehir area, according to Enerji Günlüğü. The only September application for transmission connection, for a 0.4 MW project in Kayseri, received no capacity because none had been announced in that region.

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