İsken Sugözü power station
{{short description|Coal fired power station in Turkey}}
{{Infobox power station}}
İsken Sugözü power station is a 1320 MW operational coal fired power station in Turkey.
History
Ownership
STEAG has 51% share and OYAK 49%.{{Cite web|url=http://www.isken.com.tr/en/information-society-services.aspx|title=İSKEN İskenderun Enerji Üretim ve Ticaret A.Ş. Sugözü Enerji Santralı|website=www.isken.com.tr|access-date=2020-02-01}} As of 2025 Steag is trying to sell its share.{{Cite news |title=Germany’s Steag Selling Biggest Coal Plant in Turkey Exit |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/germany-s-steag-selling-isken-coal-power-plant-in-turkey |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250220052642/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/germany-s-steag-selling-isken-coal-power-plant-in-turkey |archive-date=2025-02-20 |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=Bloomberg.com |language=en}}
Coal supply
{{see also|Coal in Turkey}}
Electricity generation
{{see also|Electricity sector in Turkey}}
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, 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.Stauffer & Gümüşel (2016), pages 4-6 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).{{Cite web|url=http://berkeleyearth.org/deaths-per-gigawatt-year/|title=Coal in China: Estimating Deaths per GW-year|date=2016-11-18|website=Berkeley Earth|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-01}} Mercury emissions have been estimated at over 200 kg/year.{{Cite report|last=Myllyvirta|first=Lauri|title=Air Quality and Health Impacts of the Proposed EMBA Hunutlu Coal Power Project|url=https://energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/EMBA-Hunutlu-Coal-Power-Project.pdf|year=2020}} It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2039, would prevent over 3000 premature deaths.{{Cite report |url=https://www.env-health.org/curing-chronic-coal-turkey/ |title=Curing Chronic Coal: The health benefits of a 2030 coal phase out in Turkey |publisher=Health and Environment Alliance |language=en-GB |year=2022}}
As well as the plant discharging into the bay, a ship carrying coal ash was wrecked there. {{Cite journal|last1=Yildirim|first1=Yasemin Bircan|last2=Vurmay|first2=Hediye Tugce|date=July 2017|title=Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of the Bacteria Isolated from some Finfish Species in Iskenderun Bay, (Northeastern Mediterranean Sea), Turkey|journal=Pakistan Journal of Zoology|volume=49|issue=4|pages=1353–1358|doi=10.17582/journal.pjz/2017.49.4.1353.1358|issn=0030-9923|doi-access=free}}
=Greenhouse gases=
As Turkey has no carbon emission trading it would not be economically viable to capture and store the gas.{{cite book |last1=Esmaeili |first1=Danial |date=June 2018 |title=Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in the Context of Turkish Energy Market|publisher=Sabancı University |url=http://research.sabanciuniv.edu/36807/1/1806_IICECE%26CPaperCCUSinTurkey_0.pdf}} Climate TRACE estimates it emitted over 6 million tons of the country's total 730 million tons of greenhouse gas in 2022:{{Cite web |title=Explore Map - Climate TRACE |url=https://climatetrace.org/explore/asset-25452557 |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=climatetrace.org |language=en}} the company is on the Urgewald Global Coal Exit List.{{Cite web |year=2023 |title=Explore the Data |url=https://www.coalexit.org/data |access-date= |website=coalexit.org}}
Opposition
There were protests by Greenpeace{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Greenpeace İSKEN'de Kömür Eylemi Yaptı|url=https://www.iskenderun.org/haber-greenpeace-isken-de-komur-eylemi-yapti-9487.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-06|website=}} and others.{{Cite web|title=Adana'da Yılmaz'a çevreci protestosu|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/adanada-yilmaza-cevreci-protestosu-39195214|access-date=2021-01-06|website=www.hurriyet.com.tr|language=tr}} Opposition to the power plant carried forward to opposition to Emba Hunutlu power station in the late 2010s.{{Cite web|url=https://kuzeyormanlari.org/2019/04/28/yasam-savunuculari-adanada-korunan-kumsala-cinlilerin-termik-santralini-protesto-ediyor/|title=Yaşam savunucuları Adana'da korunan kumsala Çinlilerin termik santralini protesto ediyor|last=Haber {{!}} 0|first=28 Nis 2019 {{!}}|date=2019-04-28|website=Kuzey Ormanları Savunması|language=tr|access-date=2020-02-01}}
See also
{{Portal|Turkey|Energy|Environment}}
References
{{Reflist|30em}}
=Sources=
- {{cite report
| author1 = Anne Stauffer
| author2 = Deniz Gümüşel
| editor = Genon K. Jensen
| year = 2016
| title = Coal power generation and health in Iskenderun Bay, Turkey
| url = https://www.env-health.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/heal_toolkit_iskenderun_bay.pdf
| publisher = Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)
}}
External links
- [https://www.gem.wiki/İsken_Sugözü_power_station İsken Sugözü power station] on Global Energy Monitor
{{Power stations in Turkey}}
Category:Coal-fired power stations in Turkey