İsken Sugözü power station


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

History

The plant started operating in 2003.

Ownership

has 51% share and OYAK 49%.

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, 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. 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. Mercury emissions have been estimated at over 200 kg/year.
As well as the plant discharging into the bay, a ship carrying coal ash was wrecked there.

Greenhouse gases

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

Opposition

Opposition to the power plant carried forward to opposition to Emba Hunutlu power station in the late 2010s.