İsken Sugözü power station

İsken Sugözü power station is a 1320 MW operational coal fired power station in Turkey.

İsken Sugözü power station
Country	Turkey
Coordinates	36°41′17″N 36°12′23″E
Status	Operational
Commission date	2003
Owner(s)	Steag OYAK
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Bituminous coal
Power generation
Nameplate capacity	1,210 MW 1,320 MW
Annual net output	7,110 GWh (2019) 9,075 GWh (2020)
External links
Website	www.isken.com.tr

History

The plant started operating in 2003.[1]

Ownership

STEAG has 51% share and OYAK 49%.[2]

Coal supply

Electricity generation

Environmental Impact

Local pollution

There is a lot of heavy industry around Iskenderun Bay, including two other coal-fired power stations, Atlas and Emba Hunutlu. Cancers increased in the decade since the plant started and respiratory diseases increased during the 2010s,[3] but because smokestack measurements are only sent to the government not published, it is difficult to estimate how much of the air pollution illnesses and deaths are due to the power plants.[4] However İsken Sugözü is the oldest and the only one using subcritical technology, so is likely to be more polluting per GWh electricity generated than the other two coal-fired power stations (a study for China estimated 200 to 400 early deaths per GW-year).[5] Mercury emissions have been estimated at over 200 kg/year.[6]

As well as the plant discharging into the bay, a ship carrying coal ash was wrecked there. [7]

Greenhouse gases

The power station emits more than 5 megatonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide a year, which is over 1% of Turkey's greenhouse gas emissions.[8] As Turkey has no carbon emission trading it would not be economically viable to capture and store the gas.[9]

Opposition

There were protests by Greenpeace[10] and others.[11] Opposition to the power plant carried forward to opposition to Emba Hunutlu power station in the late 2010s.[3]

See also

• Energy policy of Turkey
• List of power stations in Turkey
• Electricity sector in Turkey

References

1. "İSKEN İskenderun Enerji Üretim ve Ticaret A.Ş. Sugözü Enerji Santralı". www.isken.com.tr. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
2. "İSKEN İskenderun Enerji Üretim ve Ticaret A.Ş. Sugözü Enerji Santralı". www.isken.com.tr. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
3. Haber | 0, 28 Nis 2019 | (2019-04-28). "Yaşam savunucuları Adana'da korunan kumsala Çinlilerin termik santralini protesto ediyor". Kuzey Ormanları Savunması (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-02-01.
4. Stauffer & Gümüşel (2016), pages 4-6
5. "Coal in China: Estimating Deaths per GW-year". Berkeley Earth. 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
6. Myllyvirta, Lauri (2020). Air Quality and Health Impacts of the Proposed EMBA Hunutlu Coal Power Project (PDF) (Report).
7. Yildirim, Yasemin Bircan; Vurmay, Hediye Tugce (July 2017). "Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of the Bacteria Isolated from some Finfish Species in Iskenderun Bay, (Northeastern Mediterranean Sea), Turkey". Pakistan Journal of Zoology. 49 (4): 1353–1358. doi:10.17582/journal.pjz/2017.49.4.1353.1358. ISSN 0030-9923.
8. "Mapped: The world's coal power plants in 2019". Carbon Brief. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
9. Esmaeili, Danial (June 2018). Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in the Context of Turkish Energy Market (PDF). Sabancı University.
10. "Greenpeace İSKEN'de Kömür Eylemi Yaptı". Retrieved 2021-01-06.
11. "Adana'da Yılmaz'a çevreci protestosu". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-01-06.

Sources

• Anne Stauffer; Deniz Gümüşel (2016). Genon K. Jensen (ed.). Coal power generation and health in Iskenderun Bay, Turkey (PDF) (Report). Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL).

External links

• İsken Sugözü power station on Global Energy Monitor