Challenges and Opportunities for Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs in Turkiye: The Case of Solar Energy


Erden Topal Y., Gürsoy Haksevenler B. H.

Energy Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Innovation and Financing Practical Applications and Future Directions, Kazim Baris Atici,Anil Boz Semerci,Hurcan Kabakci,Prabal Shrestha, Editör, Springer, London/Berlin , Zürich, ss.153-174, 2025

  • Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Yayınevi: Springer, London/Berlin 
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Zürich
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.153-174
  • Editörler: Kazim Baris Atici,Anil Boz Semerci,Hurcan Kabakci,Prabal Shrestha, Editör
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In developing countries, entrepreneurial activities for energy generation with renewable sources are of great importance mainly for sustainable energy supply. Therefore, it becomes critical to evaluate the challenges and obstacles that influence renewable energy entrepreneurs. For this purpose, we examined solar energy entrepreneurial ecosystem in Turkiye where solar energy is one of the most widely used renewable sources. The method of analysis is the interviews with the key stakeholders from renewable energy entrepreneurs, public experts, and researchers and the benchmark analysis of Germany’s solar energy sector. The main obstacles and challenges in the renewable energy ecosystem are found to be “financial bottlenecks, the lack of predictability, under scaling of entrepreneurial burden, capacity problems and uneven distribution of market power”. The main suggestions to overcome such barriers are “to achieve macroeconomic predictability and political stability, to increase renewable energy incentives, to train entrepreneurs to build institutional identity, to construct multi-dimensional and multitasking teams for entrepreneurial activity and to address infrastructure problems”.