Kemerköy power station

Kemerköy power station
Kemerköy power station
Country	Turkey;
Coordinates	37°02′08″N 27°54′03″E / 37.0355°N 27.9007°E
Status	Operational
Annual net output	3,504 GWh (2020); 3,518 GWh (2021); 4,128 GWh (2019); 4,846 GWh (2022);
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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^[update] 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] It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2063, would prevent over 5000 premature deaths.^[7]

In 2019 local people protested against 48 villages being destroyed by expansion of the mine feeding the plant.

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.^[9] 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”.^[10]

The plant was inspected by

2021 Turkish wildfires.^[12]^[13]

References

^ "Kemerköy Thermal Plant".
^ "Kemerköy Thermal Power Plant". Retrieved 2020-06-20.
^ "Yeniköy Kemerköy Thermal Power Plants". Limak.
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.

^ "Power plant in Turkey evacuated as wildfire closes in". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-08-04.

^ "Fire that reached Turkey power plant contained, others burn". AP NEWS. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-05.

External links

Kemerköy power station on Global Energy Monitor

Yeniköy Lignite Mines (Kemerköy) on Global Energy Monitor

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[1] "Kemerköy Thermal Plant".

[2] "Kemerköy Thermal Power Plant". Retrieved 2020-06-20.

[3] "Yeniköy Kemerköy Thermal Power Plants". Limak.

[4] 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] Curing Chronic Coal: The health benefits of a 2030 coal phase out in Turkey (Report). Health and Environment Alliance. 2022.

[8] "Muğla'da köylerinin boşaltılmasını istemeyen köylüler: Bu memleket bizim!". birgun.net (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-09-04.

[9] "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.

[10] "KAMUOYU BİLGİLENDİRME" [Public notice]. www.ykenerji.com.tr (in Turkish). 2021-08-13.

[:0-11] 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.

[12] "Power plant in Turkey evacuated as wildfire closes in". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-08-04.

[13] "Fire that reached Turkey power plant contained, others burn". AP NEWS. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-05.

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