Yatağan Thermal Power Plant
Country
  • Turkey
Coordinates37°20′N 28°06′E / 37.33°N 28.1°E / 37.33; 28.1
StatusOperational
Commission date
  • 1982
Owner(s)
  • Aydem Energy
Thermal power station
Primary fuel
Power generation
Nameplate capacity
  • 630 MW
Annual net output
  • 3,461 GWh (2022)
  • 3,764 GWh (2019)
  • 3,835 GWh (2020)
  • 4,071 GWh (2021)
External links
Websitewww.yatagantermik.com.tr

Yatağan Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Turkey in Yatağan, Muğla Province in the south-west of the country. Currently owned by Aydem Enerji[1] it has a 120m chimney. Yatağan thermal power plant consumes 5.4 million tons of coal from mines such as Turgut[2] and can produce 3,780 GWh annually, the least productive power station in Turkey.[3] The area is a sulfur dioxide air pollution hotspot[4] and as of 2017 the air pollution caused by Yatağan and neighboring Kemerköy power station and Yeniköy 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 9000 premature deaths.[6] Two workers were killed in 2018 and the plant's safety has been criticized by the Chamber of Engineers.[7]

In 2018 the plant received 70 million lira capacity payments,[8] and 94 million lira in 2019.[9] In 2019 local people protested against 48 villages being destroyed by expansion of the mine feeding the plant.[10] Opponents of the coal mining also claim it threatens the ancient city of Lagina.[11] İklim Değişikliği Politika ve Araştırma Derneği (Climate Change Policy and Research Association) said that the plant was given a 5 year licence despite not having rehabilitated former ash storage landfill.[12]: 79 

References

  1. ↑ "Thermal Generation | Aydem Energy". Thermal Generation | Aydem Energy. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  2. ↑ "Yatağan Termik Santrali ile ilgili davamız | MUÇEP - Muğla Çevre Platformu" (in Turkish). 2022-08-10. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
  3. ↑ ALPHAN, MELİS (10 July 2017). "Nature and history butchered for coal". Hurriyet Daily News.
  4. ↑ "Global SO2 emission hotspot database" (PDF). Greenpeace. August 2019.
  5. ↑ "THE REAL COSTS OF COAL: MUĞLA". CAN Europe.
  6. ↑ Curing Chronic Coal: The health benefits of a 2030 coal phase out in Turkey (Report). Health and Environment Alliance. 2022.
  7. ↑ "Tmmob: Yatağan Termik Santrali'ndeki Kaza İş Güvenliğinin Önemini Ortaya Koymuştur". Haber. 30 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Kapasite mekanizması Aralık ayı ödemeleri açıklandı". Yeşil Ekonomi. 23 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "Kapasite mekanizmasıyla 2019'da 40 santrale 1.6 milyar lira ödendi". Enerji Günlüğü (in Turkish). 6 February 2020.
  10. ↑ "Muğla'da köylerinin boşaltılmasını istemeyen köylüler: Bu memleket bizim!". birgun.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  11. ↑ Birgün, Birgün. "Termik santral bir köyü yok ediyor". birgun.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  12. ↑ 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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