Two Turkish Wind Projects With 750 MW Target Completion by 2027
Key Facts
Representatives of ING Bank, DEG and KfW IPEX-Bank took part in the signing ceremony for the package, according to coverage published on November 13, 2026. The projects comprise the Edirne and Balkaya plants, not three wind farms. Edirne’s planned capacity is 410 MW, compared with 340 MW for Balkaya. The two projects aim to add this capacity to Turkey’s wind sector, with completion planned in phases by the fourth quarter of 2027.
The plants are part of the YEKA RES-2024 tender, which allocated total grid connection capacity of 1,200 MW across five sites. Turkey’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources announced the signing of the site contracts on March 11, 2025. The ministry said the offered capacity attracted bids equivalent to 18 times its size, with 40 companies competing. This places the Edirne and Balkaya projects within a broader effort to allocate new sites for wind projects. Their combined capacity of 750 MW represents part of the total capacity offered in the tender.
The projects’ plan includes the supply, installation and maintenance of turbines by Nordex, with the turbines to be produced in Turkey. This step links financing for the plants with equipment supply and local manufacturing, according to the available project announcement details. Edirne’s planned capacity is 410 MW, while Balkaya’s is 340 MW, bringing their combined total to 750 MW. The company aims to complete the projects in phases by the fourth quarter of 2027. This timeline sets a defined framework for moving the projects from financing and supply to completion.
Under the tender rules, investors can sell electricity on the free market for 72 months from the contract signing before supplying it to the transmission system at a fixed price for 20 years, according to Turkey’s energy minister. The minister said the tender projects are expected to produce 4.5 billion kilowatt-hours annually, equivalent to the needs of two million homes. He added that the expected output could reduce gas imports by about 800 million cubic meters annually. These figures provide context for the tender’s goals for domestic electricity production and its sales mechanism. They are estimates for the tender projects and are not figures specific to the Edirne and Balkaya plants alone.
Turkey aims to increase its installed wind and solar capacity from 33 GW, the figure announced by the minister in January 2025, to 120 GW by 2035. Disclosures by Enerjisa Üretim also showed that the company is targeting installed capacity of at least 6,250 MW by the end of 2028, after completing ongoing investments and additional expansions. The Edirne and Balkaya plants are among the company’s projects linked to the YEKA 2024 tender. Their combined planned capacity is 750 MW. The announced completion date for the plants remains the fourth quarter of 2027.
In a separate economic development, the Turkish Statistical Institute said on November 10 that industrial production rose 2.6% year over year and 2.1% month over month in September 2026. The manufacturing index increased 2.6% year over year, while the electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply index rose 4.0% in the same month. These data relate to September and do not measure the impact of financing for the wind projects. The institute set December 10, 2026, as the date for its next industrial production release. This comes as the plan remains to complete the Edirne and Balkaya plants in phases through the fourth quarter of 2027.