The European Commission has started a project to build a pilot solar power plant for the Turkish Cypriot community that will deliver electricity to the grid in 2009.
A concept study is currently being prepared by experts to determine the optimal solution and location for the exploitation of sunlight to produce electrical energy in the northern part of Cyprus. The pilot power plant, which will generate a maximum of approximately 1 MW, is planned to be built and put into operation in the summer of 2009. The energy exploitation is expected to be over 1.5 million kWh per year.
In order to demonstrate the particular opportunities for Cyprus in renewable energies and to explain respective technologies, the energy experts held a seminar at the EU Programme Support Office in the Greek Cypriot part of Nicosia yesterday morning in the presence of European Commission officials and representatives of Kıb-Tek. The two topics presented in the gathering were ‘The Global Energy (R)evolution’ and ‘Solar Power Generation - State of the Art and Prospects for Cyprus’,  followed by an open discussion.