Yeniköy power station

Yeniköy power station


Country	Turkey
Coordinates	37°08′28″N 27°52′22″E / 37.141°N 27.87275°E / 37.141; 27.87275
Status	Operational
Commission date	1986
Owner(s)	IC Holding Limak Holding
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Lignite
Power generation
Nameplate capacity	420 MW
Annual net output	2,997 GWh (2019) 3,094 GWh (2022) 3,234 GWh (2020) 3,278 GWh (2021)
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Yeniköy power station is a 420 MW coal-fired power station in Turkey in Yeniköy, Muğla built in the late 20th century,^[1] which burns lignite mined locally. The plant is owned by Limak- IC İçtaş^[2] and in 2020 it received 93 million lira ($16,000,000) capacity payments.^[3] The area is a sulfur dioxide air pollution hotspot^[4] and as of 2017^[update] the air pollution caused by Yeniköy and neighboring Yatağan power station and Kemerköy power station is estimated to have caused 45,000 premature deaths.^[5] It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2063, would prevent over 7000 premature deaths.^[6]

In 2019 local people protested against 48 villages being destroyed by expansion of the mine feeding the plant.^[7] The company has been granted a permit to cut down Akbelen Forest to make way for the mine expansion, but in 2021 inhabitant of İkizköy village continue to protest and filed a lawsuit claiming that the permit should not have been granted without an environmental impact assessment.^[8] The company says that Akbelen was allocated to the coal mine when the power plant was built, and that the General Directorate of Forestry defined it as an “industrial plantation area for 2019”.^[9]

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.^[10]^: 31 Despite improvements such as better flue gas 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.^[10]^{: 50 to 52}

References

^ "YENİKÖY THERMAL PLANT".
^ "YENIKÖY KEMERKÖY THERMAL POWER PLANTS". Limak.
^ "TEİAŞ". TEİAŞ. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
^ "Global SO2 emission hotspot database" (PDF). Greenpeace. August 2019.
^ "THE REAL COSTS OF COAL: MUĞLA". CAN Europe.
^ Curing Chronic Coal: The health benefits of a 2030 coal phase out in Turkey (Report). Health and Environment Alliance. 2022.
^ "Muğla'da köylerinin boşaltılmasını istemeyen köylüler: Bu memleket bizim!". birgun.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-09-04.
^ "Akbelen Ormanı eylemcileri: 'Vicdanı olan hiç kimse bu ormanın kesilmesine onay vermez'" [Akbelen Forest activists: 'No one with a conscience would permit this forest to be cut down']. BBC News Türkçe (in Turkish). 9 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
^ "KAMUOYU BİLGİLENDİRME" [Public notice]. www.ykenerji.com.tr (in Turkish). 2021-08-13.
^ ^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.

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Power stations in Turkey

Nuclear

Akkuyu – 4,800 MW
Sinop – 4,480 MW

Renewable
energy

Geothermal	Gümüşköy – 13 MW Kızıldere – 95 MW
Hydroelectric	Adıgüzel – 62 MW Akköprü – 115 MW Aksu – 13 MW Alaköprü – 26 MW Alkumru – 265.5 M Almus – 27 MW Alpaslan-1 – 160 MW Alpaslan-2 – 280 MW Altınkaya – 700 MW Arkun – 237 MW Artvin – 340 MW Aslantaş – 138 MW Atasu – 5 MW Atatürk – 2,400 MW Bahçelik – 7 MW Batman – 160 MW Berdan – 10 MW Berke – 510 MW Birecik – 672 MW Borçka – 300 MW Boyabat – 513 MW Burç Bendi – 27.9 MW Çamlıgöze – 33 MW Çatalan – 169 MW Çetin – 405 MW Çınarcık – 100 MW Cindere – 29 MW Çine – 47 MW Cizre −240 MW Demirköprü – 69 MW Derbent – 58 MW Deriner – 670 MW Devecikonağı – 29 MW Dicle – 110 MW Ermenek – 300 MW Garzan – 49 MW Gezende – 159 MW Gökçekaya – 278 MW Gönen – 11 MW Güllübağ – 96 MW Gürsöğüt −242 MW
Solar	Greenway CSP Mersin – 6 MW Karapınar – 1,000 MW
Waste	Istanbul Waste Power Plant
Wind	Aliağa – 193 MW Bahçe – 135 MW Çanta – 47.5 MW Dağpazarı – 39 MW Mut – 33 MW Şamlı – 174 MW Soma – 140.4 MW

Fossil

Coal-fired

Afşin-Elbistan C – 1800 MW proposed
Afşin-Elbistan B – 1440 MW
ZETES-3 – 1400 MW
Afşin-Elbistan A – 1355 MW
Cenal – 1320 MW
Emba Hunutlu – 1320 MW
İsken Sugözü – 1308 MW
ZETES-2 – 1230 MW
Atlas – 1200 MW
Bekirli – 1200 MW
Soma – 990 MW
Kemerköy – 653 MW
Yatağan – 630 MW
Çayırhan – 620 MW
Seyitömer – 600 MW
Soma Kolin – 510 MW
Kangal – 457 MW
Tufanbeyli – 450 MW
Yeniköy – 420 MW
Biga – 405 MW
Şırnak Silopi – 405 MW
Tunçbilek – 365 MW
İzdemir – 350 MW
Çan-2 – 330 MW
18 Mart Çan – 320 MW
Çatalağzı – 315 MW
Bolu Göynük – 270 MW
Orhaneli – 210 MW
Çolakoğlu – 190 MW
ZETES-1 – 160 MW
List of active coal-fired
Silahtarağa – now museums

Gas-fired

Gebze - 1540 MW
Unimar Marmara Ereğlisi – 480 MW

Power stations projected or under construction in italics

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