Afşin-Elbistan power stations is a 9,283 MW coal power station in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. It is operated by Afşİn Elbİstan Elektrİk Üretİm Ve Tİcaret AŞ [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 12 million homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 502 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1984, it is around 42 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 34.3% of Turkey's electricity; the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_afsinelbistanstation_trkiy.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 2,795 MW for Afşin-Elbistan power stations, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000103674; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 9,283 MW, Afşin-Elbistan power stations is well above the median coal plant in Turkey (630 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Afşİn Elbİstan Elektrİk Üretİm Ve Tİcaret AŞ [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean continental climate (Köppen Dsb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 38.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #1 largest coal power plant of 184 in Turkey by capacity.
Turkey has 184 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 147,855 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 38.3472108, 37.0260017 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Afşin-Elbistan power stations is a 9,283 MW coal power plant in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, commissioned in 1984.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 11,617,011 homes (estimated).
Afşin-Elbistan power stations is operated by Afşİn Elbİstan Elektrİk Üretİm Ve Tİcaret AŞ [100%].
