Solar power in Turkish homes

Turkey requires homes to generate solar power
Friday, June 13, 2008
ISTANBUL - Bloomberg

Turkey is preparing draft legislation that would require homeowners and businesses to install solar panels or batteries to cover 10 percent of what they consume and meet European Union standards, Milliyet said today.

Turkey could produce 20 percent of its electricity from renewable resources, Soner Aksoy, head of the Parliament's Commission on Industry, Trade, Energy and Technology, told the newspaper. Aksoy is preparing the renewable-energy law on the use of solar, wind, geothermal and biogas power generation, it said.

The law would require homes, apartment buildings and businesses to use panels to heat water and photovoltaic batteries to produce power, Aksoy said. It will also include price incentives for solar power generation for five years, he said.

Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi TAO, a state-run bank, and the Energy Ministry are discussing long-term loans to help homeowners and apartment managers insulate homes to save up to 40 percent of the energy houses waste, Milliyet said, citing Aksoy.

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