Minor Amendments To The Regulation On Unlicensed Electricity Generation

Last week, minor amendments to the Regulation have been published in the Official Gazette dated 15 May 2017 and numbered 30067.

The unlicensed generation facilities using renewable energy resources have become very popular in Turkey given that the developers of certain electricity generation facilities are provided an exemption from the licensing requirements under the Regulation on Unlicensed Electricity Generation in the Electricity Market published in the Official Gazette dated 2 October 2013 (the "Regulation"). Accordingly, electricity generation facilities using renewable energy resources with an installed capacity of less than 1 MW were not required to make an application for an electricity generation licence or pre-licence thus not subject to the strict scrutiny of the Energy Market Regulation Authority ("EMRA") of Turkey.