Türkiye's total installed capacity, including licensed and unlicensed electricity generation facilities, rose from 119,740 megawatts at the end of the first half of 2025 to 126,113 megawatts at the end of the first half of 2026.
Compared with the end of the two periods, total installed electricity capacity increased by 6,373 megawatts. Renewable energy sources accounted for 5,613 megawatts of this increase.
Solar and wind capacity led the growth
Renewable energy capacity rose from 73,195 megawatts to 78,808 megawatts during the same period. The share of renewable sources in total installed capacity increased from 61.1% to 62.5%.
Solar power capacity rose from 23,573 megawatts to 27,210 megawatts over the past year, an increase of approximately 3,637 megawatts. Wind power capacity increased from 13,476 megawatts to 15,281 megawatts, registering a rise of approximately 1,805 megawatts.
The combined 5,442-megawatt increase in solar and wind capacity accounted for approximately 97% of the growth in renewable energy capacity. Capacity growth from these two sources represented 85.4% of the net increase in Türkiye's total installed electricity capacity.
With the growth in solar power, solar moved into second place behind hydropower in the ranking of installed capacity by source. As of the end of June, hydropower capacity stood at 32.3 gigawatts, solar power at 27.2 gigawatts and wind power at 15.3 gigawatts.
Biomass capacity stood at approximately 2.2 gigawatts, while geothermal capacity was at 1.8 gigawatts. The combined installed capacity of hydropower, solar and wind reached 74.8 gigawatts, accounting for approximately 59% of Türkiye's total electricity capacity.
Renewables' share of generation reached 61.5%
Total electricity generation from licensed and unlicensed facilities rose from 171.3 terawatt-hours in the first half of 2025 to approximately 174.8 terawatt-hours in the same period of 2026.
Electricity generation from hydropower, wind, solar, biomass and geothermal sources increased from 81.3 terawatt-hours to 107.5 terawatt-hours. Electricity generation from renewable sources rose by 32.3%, while their share of total generation increased from 47.4% to 61.5%.
Hydropower generation rose from 33.9 terawatt-hours to approximately 57 terawatt-hours, an increase of 67.9%. Hydropower accounted for 32.6% of total electricity generation.
Wind power generation increased from 18.8 terawatt-hours to approximately 21.5 terawatt-hours, rising by 14.2%. Wind power accounted for 12.3% of total generation.
Total electricity generation from licensed and unlicensed solar facilities also rose from 17.6 terawatt-hours to 18.3 terawatt-hours. Solar power accounted for 10.5% of total electricity generation.
Unlicensed capacity exceeded 25 gigawatts
Unlicensed installed electricity capacity rose from 21,947 megawatts in June 2025 to 25,239 megawatts in June 2026. Unlicensed capacity thus increased by approximately 3,292 megawatts in one year, representing 15% growth.
As of the end of June 2026, solar power accounted for 24,399 megawatts of unlicensed installed capacity. Solar's share of unlicensed electricity capacity reached 96.7%.
The contribution of unlicensed facilities to electricity generation also increased. Gross electricity generation from unlicensed facilities rose from 13.8 terawatt-hours to 14.6 terawatt-hours, an increase of approximately 6%.
The amount of surplus unlicensed electricity supplied to and purchased by the system after generation increased by 6.4% during the same period, reaching approximately 9.2 terawatt-hours.
Net electricity exports exceeded 1.4 terawatt-hours
The positive difference between electricity exports and imports rose from approximately 980,000 megawatt-hours in the January-June period of 2025 to 1,426,000 megawatt-hours in the same period of 2026.
Türkiye's net electricity exports thus increased by 45.5% compared with the same period last year.
