Turkey launches its first offshore wind YEKA tender

Despite ambitious targets, challenges like permitting, infrastructure and financial risks could hinder progress, according to a GlobalData forecast. Strategic planning and policy reforms are also essential to realize the country's offshore wind potential by 2035.

Why this news matters:

  • Turkey is emerging as a potential new offshore wind market in the Eastern Mediterranean/Black Sea region.

  • Success will depend less on resource potential and more on solving permitting, infrastructure and financing challenges that are familiar across many emerging offshore wind markets.

Challenges to deployment

GlobalData has identified several hurdles that could limit offshore wind growth:

  • Lengthy permitting and regulatory processes;
  • Need for significant investment in grid connections, subsea cables and supporting infrastructure;
  • Financial risks tied to inflation, currency volatility and supply-chain constraints; and
  • Technical and environmental challenges, including seabed conditions and marine sensitivities. 

According to GlobalData, delays in permitting and grid development are likely to be among the key factors limiting deployment during the next decade.

What is needed to make progress

To close the gap between the government's 5-GW target and forecast deployment, GlobalData recommends:

  • Streamlined permitting and clearer approval timelines;
  • Early coordination of grid and port infrastructure;
  • Financial mechanisms that reduce inflation and currency risks; and
  • Incentives that support domestic supply chains and local content.

About the Author

Ariana Hurtado

Editor-in-Chief

With more than a decade of copy editing, project management and journalism experience, Ariana Hurtado is a seasoned managing editor born and raised in the energy capital of the world—Houston, Texas. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Offshore, overseeing the editorial team, its content and the brand's growth from a digital perspective. 

Utilizing her editorial expertise, she manages digital media for the Offshore team. She also helps create and oversee new special industry reports and revolutionizes existing supplements, while also contributing content to Offshore's magazine, newsletters and website as a copy editor and writer. 

Prior to her current role, she served as Offshore's editor and director of special reports from April 2022 to December 2024. Before joining Offshore, she served as senior managing editor of publications with Hart Energy. Prior to her nearly nine years with Hart, she worked on the copy desk as a news editor at the Houston Chronicle.

She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Houston.

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