İsken Sugözü power station

İsken Sugözü power station
İsken Sugözü power station
Country	Turkey;
Coordinates	36°50′06″N 35°52′48″E / 36.835°N 35.88°E
Status	Operational
Commission date	2003;
	OYAK; STEAG;
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Bituminous coal;
Power generation
Nameplate capacity	1,210 MW; 1,308 MW;
Annual net output	7,110 GWh (2019); 8,121 GWh (2021); 8,268 GWh (2022); 9,075 GWh (2020);
External links
Website	www.isken.com.tr
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İsken Sugözü power station is a 1320 MW operational coal fired power station in Turkey.

History

The plant started operating in 2003.^[1]

Ownership

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

Coal supply

Electricity generation

Health and 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] It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2039, would prevent over 3000 premature deaths.^[7]

As well as the plant discharging into the bay, a ship carrying coal ash was wrecked there. ^[8]

Greenhouse gases

As Turkey has no carbon emission trading it would not be economically viable to capture and store the gas.^[9] Climate TRACE estimates it emitted over 6 million tons of the country's total 730 million tons of greenhouse gas in 2022:^[10] the company is on the Urgewald Global Coal Exit List.^[11]

Opposition

There were protests by Greenpeace^[12] and others.^[13] Opposition to the power plant carried forward to opposition to Emba Hunutlu power station in the late 2010s.^[3]

References

^ "İSKEN İskenderun Enerji Üretim ve Ticaret A.Ş. Sugözü Enerji Santralı". www.isken.com.tr. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
^ "İSKEN İskenderun Enerji Üretim ve Ticaret A.Ş. Sugözü Enerji Santralı". www.isken.com.tr. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
^ ^a ^b 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Stauffer & Gümüşel (2016), pages 4-6
^ "Coal in China: Estimating Deaths per GW-year". Berkeley Earth. 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
^ Myllyvirta, Lauri (2020). Air Quality and Health Impacts of the Proposed EMBA Hunutlu Coal Power Project (PDF) (Report).
^ Curing Chronic Coal: The health benefits of a 2030 coal phase out in Turkey (Report). Health and Environment Alliance. 2022.
^ 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.
^ Esmaeili, Danial (June 2018). Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in the Context of Turkish Energy Market (PDF). Sabancı University.
^ "Explore Map - Climate TRACE". climatetrace.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
^ "Explore the Data". coalexit.org. 2023.
^ "Greenpeace İSKEN'de Kömür Eylemi Yaptı". Retrieved 2021-01-06.
^ "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

[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.

[:0-3] 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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

[8] 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.

[9] Esmaeili, Danial (June 2018). Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in the Context of Turkish Energy Market (PDF). Sabancı University.

[10] "Explore Map - Climate TRACE". climatetrace.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.

[11] "Explore the Data". coalexit.org. 2023.

[12] "Greenpeace İSKEN'de Kömür Eylemi Yaptı". Retrieved 2021-01-06.

[13] "Adana'da Yılmaz'a çevreci protestosu". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-01-06.

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