Turkish Parliament to power its campus entirely with solar energy from Konya

The Turkish Grand National Assembly is moving to fulfill its entire electricity demand with renewable sources by building a 20-megawatt peak solar farm on a 300-decare site in Konya, an agricultural region. Expected to produce around 36 million kilowatt-hours per year, the plant will cover one outlet consumption of the parliament complex in Ankara. Complementing this, a 472-kilowatt peak rooftop system on the multi-storey parking facility will add about 750,000 kilowatt-hours annually.

These installations belong to a wider "green transformation" program that has already cut 2.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, saved 300,000 cubic metres of natural gas and reduced water use by 20,000 tonnes since June 2023. Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş highlighted an anticipated economic contribution of 115 million Turkish Liras from the renewable projects. The campus also employs rainwater harvesting, grey-water recycling, smart irrigation and composting machines to further lower its environmental footprint, with more initiatives slated for completion soon.