Kalyon to double its photo voltaic panel manufacturing capability

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Answering the questions of the WORLD, Kalyon PV CEO Ersan Tüfekçi said that with the brand new funding they’ll put into use in February 2023, they’ll change into Turkey’s largest producer on this subject, and knowledgeable that their domesticity charge has reached 80 %.

Ersan Tüfekçi famous that after principally changing a metallurgical stone to a semiconductor on the manufacturing unit, they transformed it into a cloth that may generate electrical energy beneath clear room situations, and said that they turned this right into a panel that can be utilized within the subject. 100 folks beneath the roof of the manufacturing unit R&D Tüfekçi said that they’ve a group and said that they’re engaged on extra environment friendly and extra technological manufacturing phases. Expressing that the built-in facility is the primary and solely in Turkey, Tüfekçi stated that they need it for use as a helpful enter in drawing the roadmap of the sector by mixing their expertise with the information of the institutes engaged in educational research on this subject.

Drawing consideration to Turkey’s being a celebration to the Paris Local weather Settlement and its carbon impartial goal for 2053, Tüfekçi stated that the carbon tax led the entire {industry} to seek for manufacturing with the least carbon emissions. Expressing that the producers and international locations that may obtain the transition to renewable vitality within the quickest, most cost-effective and most strong method will change into extra unbiased and stronger within the coming years, Ersan Tüfekçi talked about that Turkey is in a really fortunate place geographically, particularly within the solar.

Tüfekçi underlined that though Turkey is above Germany when it comes to solar per sq. meter, the put in capability is much under that of Germany, Tüfekçi stated, “An unimaginable funding within the sector to show our place into a bonus when it comes to changing our solar into electrical energy and evaluating Turkey’s geographical location. and incentives. At this level, Turkey has risen to third place within the rating of nations producing photo voltaic panels.

Declaring that the localization charge right here is necessary in addition to the rise in manufacturing, Tüfekçi stated that as Kalyon, they’re proud to supply an 80 % native charge. Ersan Tüfekçi, who said that different corporations within the sector also needs to work to extend the speed of domesticity, famous that home suppliers needs to be established in the primary {industry} and sub-industry.

“We’re rising the capability to 2 GW”

Emphasizing that they produce photo voltaic panels with a capability of 1.2 GW per yr on the manufacturing unit, Tüfekçi emphasised that they’ll fee a brand new funding that can enhance this to 2 GW as of February 2023. Tüfekçi, who stated that they’ll change into the most important producer of Turkey on this subject when the funding is accomplished, defined that essentially the most essential level is the cell. Mentioning that Kalyon additionally produces the semiconductor cell inside its personal construction, Ersan Tüfekçi stated: “Know-how on this subject is continually altering and creating. We have to maintain ourselves always up to date for every of the manufacturing processes at each stage of our group. In any other case, after a number of years, we are going to stop to be the ability that produces essentially the most environment friendly photo voltaic panels and change into a facility that produces panels the place nobody calls for expertise that nobody makes use of.”

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