A large home market built on flat-plate collectors
Türkiye was the third-largest solar thermal market in the world for new capacity in 2024, after China and Brazil, installing about 1.4 GWth — roughly 2 million m² of collectors — a 10 % increase on 2023, according to Solar Heat Worldwide 2025. Its installed base of around 19.4 GWth at the end of 2023 is second only to China's. Flat-plate collectors dominate, and the vast majority of systems sold are produced domestically, which has created a deep supply chain in absorbers, glass, insulation, tanks and controls.
Large systems are a Turkish speciality: mass housing projects routinely install fields of 14–30 flat-plate collectors with 1,000–2,000 L storage tanks, and the country ranks second globally in large-scale non-residential solar thermal installations. Türkiye's National Energy Plan targets around 52.9 GW of solar power capacity by 2035.
Standards that travel
Because Türkiye is in a customs union with the EU, its product legislation for pressure equipment, low-voltage and electromagnetic compatibility, ecodesign and energy labelling mirrors European rules, and Turkish manufacturers apply the same EN and ISO standards — EN 12975 and ISO 9806 for collectors, EN 12976 for factory-made systems, EN 14511 and EN 14825 for heat pumps — that buyers in Europe, the Gulf and Africa expect to see. Products developed for the domestic market can therefore be exported with CE marking and, where required, Solar Keymark certification without redesign.
Why Konya
Konya, on the Central Anatolian plateau, is one of Türkiye's most productive industrial provinces, known for machinery, metalworking, casting, automotive components and agricultural equipment, with several organised industrial zones. It is also among the sunniest regions in the country and hosts Türkiye's largest solar power plant at Karapınar, with about 1.35 GWdc of capacity.
Logistically the province sits between the Mediterranean port of Mersin and the domestic transport corridors to Europe and the Caucasus, giving manufacturers efficient access to sea and road freight. Motiontec Energy, based in Konya, draws on this industrial and solar ecosystem to supply solar thermal collectors, PV-T panels, thermosiphon systems, storage tanks and heat pumps to partners in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the CIS.
