A months-long investigation into price dumping in Turkeyhas concluded, with the Turkish government announcing a list of China-based PVmanufacturers who will be subject to antidumping fees for PV imports.
Photovoltaicpanels manufactured outside of Turkey are already subject to an import tax,called gözetim vergisi. However, Turkey’s government also initiated anantidumping investigation for imported modules.
Theinvestigation was completed in February, and the committee reported to theMinistry of Economy that it had detected a 27% dumping rate for modulesimported from China.
Thewhole process was concluded on Saturday 1st April, when Turkey’s governmentpublished a list of China-based PV panel manufacturers who are now subject toan anti-dumping fee of US$20/m² in the state gazette.
The list offirms includes:
Hanwha Q Cells(Qidong)
Zhejiang JinkoSolar
Chint Solar(Zhejiang)
ByD (Shangluo)Industrial
Canadian Solar(Changshu)
Canadian Solar(Luoyang)
CEEG (Shanghai)Solar Science Technology
CEEGNanjing Renewable Energy
ChangzhouTrina Solar Energy
TrinaSolar (Changzou) Science and Technology
HainanYingli New Energy Resources
YingiEnergy (China)
HefeiChinaland Solar Energy
JianhsuSeraphim Solar System
PerlightSolar
RenesolarJiangsu
Furthermore, allother PV panel manufacturers who have set up manufacturing plants in China, anddid not respond to the investigation are subject to an antidumping fee of$25/m².
Ates Ugurel, founderof Turkey’s Solar Energy Society Solarbaba, told pv magazine that“the imposed antidumping fee will increase the PV panel’s cost by approximately30 to 35%. The current average PV panel price is around $0.35/W, and it willnow rise to $0.45 to $0.48/W.”
In March, Turkeytendered 1 GW of solar PV capacity, which will comprise a single PV plant inKonya’s Karapinar province. The consortium of South Korea’s Hanwha Q Cells andlocal Turkish firm Kalyon Enerjiwon the tender, offering to sell the generatedelectricity at a feed-in tariff of $0.0699/kWh.
Last month too,Turkey’s energy minister Berat Albayrak said at a conference that the ministryis set to launcha solar andwind tenderfor 1 GWof new capacity each in mid-summer.
The Konya tenderincludes requirements for local manufacturing of PV modules, cells, wafers,ingots and inverters, and the industry is waiting to see whether this is alsothe case for the forthcoming solar tender set to be launched in the summer.
