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7.1.2 Tourism sector news
In 2021, Turkey’s health services industry served more than 640,000 foreign visitors, with 400,000 of them Europeans. Health tourism revenues were probably at about $2-3bn if unrecorded revenues were taken into account. It is questionable how healthy the services are for the health tourists but they are definitely cheaper.
7.1.3 Utilities sector news
Turkey’s energy ministry delayed a tender that was to be held on May 31 for the building and operating of 66 solar plants with a combined capacity of 1,300 MW under the YEKA GES-5 (Renewable Energy Source Areas, Solar Power Plants-5) round.
The ministry has not provided a new date for the tender. It has been delaying and amending the round since January.
(See full list of YEKA tenders here, here and here.)
On May 31, the ministry will collect initial bids for 42 wind plants with a combined capacity of 850 MW in the YEKA RES-3 (Renewable Energy Source Areas, Wind Power Plants-3).
On June 21, it will collect initial bids for the building and operating of 12 solar plants with a combined capacity of 700 MW under the YEKA GES-4 (Renewable Energy Source Areas, Solar Power Plants-4) round.
Bids are placed for government purchase guarantees, with the government guaranteeing it will buy defined amounts of initial production.
In February 2021, the government cut the feed-in tariff (YEKDEM) for solar power plants that were to come online after end-June 2021 to TRY0.32 per kWh ($0.02) from $0.133 and for wind plants to TRY0.32 from $0.073.
Since April 1, there have been two price ceilings, namely TRY 1.20 and TRY 2.5 per kWh, in the Day Ahead Market at the Energy Exchange Istanbul (EPIAS). The government transfers funds to import coal, gas, fuel oil, naphtha, LPG and diesel.
As of May 20, the energy watchdog EPDK hiked the upper ceiling to TRY 2.75 kWh from TRY 2.5.
As of June 1, the EPDK again hiked the ceiling to TRY 3.20.
The price has been hitting the new ceiling of TRY3.20 since then (see hourly
chart and prices here).
On May 30, the daily average price broke a new record with TRY 2.55 ($1.56). The USD-denominated record was registered on February 13, 2012 at $3.92.
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