BY KORAY OZTOPCU Demands for digitalization and sustainable mobility have increased significantly with the pandemic and the production of chips and semiconductors, which are used in most of the devices we use in our daily lives, has recently become one of the most discussed issues in the global power balance. The use of chips is...
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BY KORAY OZTOPCU Garanti BBVA Consumer Finance Director Koray Oztopcu on Rooftop Solar Power System technologies and how to sustain consumer finance in clean energy investments… Research shows that the amount of sunlight hitting the surface of the planet in an hour and a half is sufficient to meet the energy consumed by the whole...
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BY KORAY OZTOPCU Garanti BBVA Consumer Finance Director Koray Oztopcu evaluates the world automotive sector under the global axis, supply process change and sustainable consumer finance in his column. With the pandemic, demands for digitalization and sustainable mobility have increased significantly. Accordingly, chip and semiconductor production, which is involved in most of the products we...