Chinese engineering giant to build wind farm and huge energy storage facility in Turkey
Battery and wind farm will be built in the western Turkish port city of Tekirdağ
One of China’s biggest electrical equipment groups has struck a $650m deal to build a 250MW wind farm and 1GWh battery facility – set to be among Europe’s largest – in Turkey.
The wind farm and battery will be based in the port city of Tekirdağ, which sits on the Sea of Marmara in western Turkey.
Harbin Electric International signed the agreement with a subsidiary of Turkey’s Kontrolmatik at a ceremony in Ankara on Wednesday, which was attended by Turkey’s vice president Cevdet Yılmaz and the Chinese ambassador to the country, Liu Shaobin.
OMG Capital Advisors, which advised the Kontrolmatik subsidiary Progresiva on the deal, wrote on LinkedIn that the battery facility is Turkey’s first grid-scale energy storage facility.
This “promises to usher in a new era for Turkey’s energy sector, particularly with regards to allowing more effective use of the country’s growing capacity in renewables,” said OMG.
The parties plan to bring the battery online next year and the wind farm in 2027.
Harbin, a major engineering company and turbine maker in China, will invest $300m in the project while Progresiva will fund the remainder.
Harbin will be the main contractor for engineering, construction and procurement in the project.
Kontrolmatik said that another of its units, Pomega Energy Storage Systems, will supply equipment for the energy storage facility.