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Chinese wind giant in talks to build Turkish turbine factory

Chinese wind giants have increasingly been making moves on Turkish market that has long been key to German suppliers Nordex and Enercon

Turkish energy minister Alparslan Bayraktar posted a picture of the meeting with Dongfang Electric on social media.
Turkish energy minister Alparslan Bayraktar posted a picture of the meeting with Dongfang Electric on social media.Photo: X/Alparslan Bayraktar
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One of China’s leading wind turbine manufacturers, Dongfang Electric, is in talks to build a factory in Turkey.

Turkish energy minister Alparslan Bayraktar posted on social media platform X that a “comprehensive meeting” had taken place at his ministry with senior executives from Dongfang Electric.

Bayraktar said Turkey aims to deploy 120GW of wind and solar farms by 2035 and also wants to increase its domestic manufacturing capacity for these technologies.

During the meeting with Dongfang, Bayraktar said the parties had discussed a “significant project” to help make that ambition a reality.

The government has evaluated Dongfang’s plan to build a wind turbine production facility in Turkey with an annual capacity of 2GW, he said, with an initial investment of approximately $250m.

Although Dongfang is not as big a name internationally as some of China’s other wind turbine giants, like Goldwind, Envision and Mingyang, the company is still one of the leading suppliers of wind turbines worldwide by raw capacity.

Consultancy Wood Mackenzie reported that Dongfang had the seventh largest share in the global wind industry in 2024, ahead of Western wind giants Siemens Gamesa, Nordex and GE Vernova.
The vast majority, if not all, of these turbines will so far have been sold to the massive but brutally competitive Chinese domestic market, but these talks show that Dongfang, like many of its Chinese rivals, is now increasingly setting its sights overseas.
Turkey has long been a key market for German turbine-makers Enercon and Nordex but Chinese wind giants have increasingly been making moves there. Envision this month secured a colossal supply deal in Turkey, while Goldwind struck two agreements there earlier this year, describing the market as a “strategic hub”.
Dongfang last month celebrated installing a prototype of what is the world’s most powerful wind turbine ever, a 26MW offshore monster. The manufacturer has reportedly claimed it has already secured orders for the new model.
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Published 30 September 2025, 09:27Updated 30 September 2025, 09:28
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