OPENING CEREMONY FOR KALYON SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES FACTORY

The first and only integrated solar panel production factory in Europe and the Middle East was opened in Ankara with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The factory has a closed area of 80 thousand square meters, the construction of which has been completed in Ankara Başkent Organized Industrial Zone. 1400 people will be employed in the factory with an investment value of 400 million dollars.

Serving with a production capacity of 500 megawatts per year, the first productions of the factory will be used in Konya Karapınar Solar Power Plant with a total installed power of 1000 megawatts, which to be established within the scope of the Solar YEKA 1 project.

Established in the Başkent Organized Industrial Zone, the most important feature of the Kalyon Solar Technologies Factory is that it has all the solar panel production technologies and creates a production system from start to finish. The factory consists of 4 separate sections as ingot (ore), wafer (plate), cell and module. In other words, the silicon entering the production line as raw material turns out to be a high efficiency solar panel at the end of the line.

19 August 2020, Ankara