Conergy has set up a joint venture with Turkey’s CO Group to provide services to developers of solar-power projects in the country.
The JV, RKT Conergy, will provide project development, financing, engineering, procurement and construction as well as operations and maintenance services to commercial rooftop and ground-mounted solar projects.
“Turkey is one of the most attractive emerging solar markets with favourable market conditions: increasing energy demand and high irradiance level, supported by a government-sponsored feed-in tariff program,” Conergy said.
The joint venture will be led by Heinz-Peter Tienken, Vice President Global Engineering & Service of Conergy, and Utku Korkmaz, Managing Director of RKT.
The CO Group’s parent company is Cenay Group, owned by Cengiz Guldamlası, who also co-owns RKT, a developer of wind and solar projects. RKT and Conergy are already developing solar projects jointly.
“We made good progress in building up a pipeline within the unlicensed PV segment and already have 30 MW of secured grid,” said Utku Korkmaz, Managing Director of RKT Conergy. “With the addition of Conergy, which is both bankable and experienced in the solar sector, we will be able to further strengthen and speed up our project development activities”.
Starkraft has selected RKT Conergy as the EPC provider for its PV project in Turkey.