Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparlsan Bayraktar has stated the country will facilitate $80 billion in renewable energy investment through 2035, for a total of $108 billion including nuclear power and transmission network expansion. Turkey’s electricity demand is expected by the Ministry to grow from 335.2 TWh to 510.5 TWh by 2035. In nominal capacity terms, this will see Turkey’s 12.4 GW wind and 18.7 GW solar fleets grow fourfold to 120 GW, including 5 GW offshore. The Ministry revealed that half of wind and solar projects in the development pipeline today, namely 43.5 GW solar and 26.1 GW wind, have energy storage components – assuming 4-hour duration and 100% of nominal capacity, that would be some 140…