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[^1]\n\nHydrogen cost forecasts often incorrectly apply experience curves by assuming that every doubling of installed capacity corresponds to a comparable doubling of manufacturing experience. [^2]\n\nAlparslan Bayraktar noted that the topic of the Akkuyu nuclear plant was discussed during a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. [^3]\n\nAlparslan Bayraktar stated that hundreds of tests must be completed for the Akkuyu nuclear plant and that Turkey is striving to meet the timeline. [^4]\n\nThe Turkish government announced it is revising its National Energy Plan to present a new 'Turkey Energy Architecture for 2040' before the COP31 climate conference in Antalya. [^5]\n\nAccording to the IEA's 2025 electrolyzer cost breakdown, the stack represents only about 15-20% of installed capital cost, while engineering, procurement, construction, and contingency can account for more than half. [^6]\n\nChemical-plant scale economies are substantial but front-loaded, meaning larger projects share equipment and spread fixed engineering costs, but further capacity growth comes from replicating optimized process trains. [^7]\n\nWhen the same 2025 European study normalized project costs for estimated project-size economies, the learning rate for all projects fell to 13.3% per doubling. 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