Recent developments
The decisions of the Energy Market Regulatory Board of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (“EMRA“) dated 18 June 2026 and numbered 14671 and 14681 (together, the “EMRA Decisions“), concerning electricity generation facilities that continue their license-exempt generation activities after completing the 10-year period during which they benefited from the Renewable Energy Resources Support Scheme (“YEKDEM“), were published in the Official Gazette dated 20 June 2026 and numbered 33286. You may access the texts of the EMRA Decisions here (in Turkish).
These EMRA Decisions complement the principles introduced by Presidential Decision dated 12 June 2026 and numbered 11415 (the “Presidential Decision“), regarding the surplus electrical energy generated by electricity generation facilities that continue their license-exempt generation activities after the expiry of the 10-year period during which they were subject to YEKDEM. You may access our bulletin on the Presidential Decision here.
What do the EMRA Decisions introduce?
- EMRA’s decision dated 18 June 2026 and numbered 14671
Under the Presidential Decision, where electricity generation facilities that continue their license-exempt generation activities after the expiry of the 10-year period during which they were subject to YEKDEM, are located at a different metering point from the consumption facility, only the surplus electrical energy generated by such facilities may be sold. The amount of surplus electrical energy eligible for sale was to be determined by EMRA.
Accordingly, by its decision dated 18 June 2026 and numbered 14671, EMRA resolved that, for 2026, all surplus electrical energy generated by license-exempt electricity generation facilities that have completed the 10-year period during which they were subject to YEKDEM and are located at a different metering point from the consumption facility may be sold.
- EMRA’s decision dated 18 June 2026 and numbered 14681
By its decision dated 21 May 2026 and numbered 14613 (the “Interim Tariff Decision“), EMRA had ruled that the “License-Exempt Generator-2” tariff would apply to license-exempt generation facilities that had completed their 10-year period until the publication of the Presidential Decision, and had reduced the injection-direction distribution fee from 208.1065 kurus/kWh to 65.6008 kurus/kWh. Accordingly, the Interim Tariff Decision ceased to be applicable upon the publication of the Presidential Decision.
By its decision dated 18 June 2026 and numbered 14681, EMRA resolved that, effective as of 13 June 2026, which is the effective date of the Presidential Decision, the License-Exempt Generator-2 tariff will once again apply as the injection-direction distribution fee to license-exempt generation facilities that have completed their 10-year period and continue their license-exempt generation activities. Accordingly, the distribution fee approach adopted under the Interim Tariff Decision has once again become applicable.
Conclusion
With the EMRA Decisions, within the scope of the implementation of the Presidential Decision, the amount of surplus electrical energy that may be sold in 2026 by facilities located at a different metering point from the consumption facility, as well as the injection-direction distribution fee applicable to facilities falling within the scope of the Presidential Decision, have now been clarified.
