Kemerköy power station

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Kemerköy power station
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Country
  • Turkey
Coordinates37°02′08″N 27°54′03″E / 37.0355°N 27.9007°E / 37.0355; 27.9007Coordinates: 37°02′08″N 27°54′03″E / 37.0355°N 27.9007°E / 37.0355; 27.9007
StatusOperational
Commission date
  • 1993
Owner(s)
Thermal power station
Primary fuel
Power generation
Nameplate capacity
  • 653 MW
Annual net output
  • 3,504 GWh (2020)
  • 4,128 GWh (2019)
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Kemerköy power station is a 630 MW coal-fired power station in Turkey in Kemerköy, Muğla,[1] completed in 1985,[2] which burns lignite mined locally. Originally state owned by Electricity Generation Company it was sold in 2014 to Limak- IC İçtaş.[3] In 2020 it received 140 million lira ($25,000,000) capacity payments.[4] The area is a sulfur dioxide air pollution hotspot[5] and as of 2017 the air pollution caused by Kemerköy and neighboring Yatağan power station and Yeniköy power station is estimated to have caused 45,000 premature deaths.[6] In 2019 local people protested against 48 villages being destroyed by expansion of the mine feeding the plant.[7]

The plant was inspected by Istanbul Technical University in 2019 before new pollution regulations came into force at the beginning of 2020, and they made various improvement recommendations, such as better groundwater monitoring near the ash ponds.[8]:32 Despite improvements such as better air filters not being completed on all units, the plant was allowed to operate on a temporary licence in 2020, and in January 2021 the plant was granted a second temporary operating licence with a requirement to submit an environmental report to the ministry in June.[8]:29 The plant was evacuated due to and slightly damaged by the 2021 Turkish wildfires.[9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Kemerköy Thermal Plant".
  2. ^ "Kemerköy Thermal Power Plant". Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  3. ^ "Yeniköy Kemerköy Thermal Power Plants". Limak.
  4. ^ "TEİAŞ". TEİAŞ. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  5. ^ "Global SO2 emission hotspot database" (PDF). Greenpeace. August 2019.
  6. ^ "The Real Costs of Coal: Muğla". CAN Europe.
  7. ^ "Muğla'da köylerinin boşaltılmasını istemeyen köylüler: Bu memleket bizim!". birgun.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Çaltı, Nuray; Bozoğlu, Dr. Baran; Aldırmaz, Ahmet Turan; Atalar, Gülşah Deniz (2 June 2021). Özelleştirilmiş Termik Santraller ve Çevre Mevzuatına Uyum Süreçleri [Privatized Thermal Power Plants and Environmental Legislation Compliance Processes] (Report) (in Turkish). İklim Değişikliği Politika ve Araştırma Derneği.
  9. ^ "Power plant in Turkey evacuated as wildfire closes in". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  10. ^ "Fire that reached Turkey power plant contained, others burn". AP NEWS. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-05.

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