Electricity generation facilities may be allowed in unproductive forest areas.

Licensed solar power generation facilities may be allowed in de facto rocky, stony, unproductive forest areas.

Today the regulation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that modifies the regulation on the implementation of the third paragraph of article 17 of the forestry law was published in the Official Gazette.

With the regulations, the clause of articles 4 and 25 of the corresponding regulations is repealed, which establishes that “electric power generation facilities from licensed solar energy” will not be allowed in areas considered forest.

TEDAŞ AND TEİAŞ CAN SEE IF IT HAS THE QUALIFICATION OF FOREST

Pursuant to the paragraph added to the same article, authorized facilities for the generation of electrical energy based on solar energy may be authorized in stony, rocky, and unproductive forest areas that do not have tree and shrub communities, forestry activities, and forests that are technically impossible to establish. .

With the regulation made in the regulation regarding the completion of applications for power transmission and distribution facilities to be established in areas to be considered forest, it has become possible for TEİAŞ and TEDAŞ to determine whether these areas have forest characteristics. (Reuters)