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List of power stations in Turkey
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The most important power stations in Turkey are listed here. Turkey generates about 300 TWh of electricity per year.
 | This article needs to be updated. (January 2023) |
High carbon emissions
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Coal
All operational coal-fired power stations over 50MW are listed below.
Five plants were shut down at the end of 2019 to reduce air pollution,[1] leaving total installed capacity at about 17 GW, with 1.3 GW under construction.[2] However,[3] government may continue subsidizing some of the most polluting plants in 2020.[4][5] In 2019 almost 500 million lira was paid to them.[6]
In 2017, imported hard coal generated 51 TWh and local coal (almost all lignite) 44 TWh of electricity.[7]
Hard coal is estimated to emit 1126 g CO2-eq./kWh and lignite 1062 g CO2-eq./kWh.[8]
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Medium carbon emissions
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Natural gas
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In 2020, about 68 TWh of electricity was generated from gas.[16] As of 2021[update], according to the head of the Electricity Producers’ Association, natural gas plants did not have enough money for maintenance work.[17]
Geothermal
The CO2 emissions from new geothermal plants in Turkey are high but gradually decline: lifecycle emissions were still being researched as of 2019.[18]
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Low carbon emissions
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Hydroelectric
Solar photovoltaic
As of 2021[update] there was 9 GW of solar PV.[21]
Solar thermal
Wind
As of 2022, there were 280 wind farms in Turkey, of which 280 were active in production with a total installed capacity of 10.592 GW more than 10% of the total installed power capacity of the country.[23]
Nuclear
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Notes
- Many of the values in the column for lignite power stations must be too low: this is partly because Carbon Brief has not taken into account the actual generation: this can be seen by the routine calculation of dividing the number in the generation column of List of active coal-fired power stations in Turkey by 1000 (because the average emission factor is 31 tCO2/TJ for Turkish lignite,[10] so it must emit well over 1000g CO2 per kWh) and noticing that it is larger than the number in this column. Similarly the value for Çatalağzı may be too high.
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