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Corlu CHP power station

Gas power plant in Tekirdag, Turkey. Approximate location 41.138, 27.8653.

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Corlu CHP power station is a 56 MW gas power plant in Tekirdag, Turkey. It is operated by Can Enerji Entegre Elektrik Uretim AŞ. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 63,297 homes (estimated). It ranks #134 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 84,141 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 19,613 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 22.1% of Turkey's electricity; the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

56MW installed capacity
63,297homes powered (est.)
84,141t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6333.

84,141 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

19,613passenger cars driven for a year
10,973homes' yearly energy use
1,402,350tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Turkey

Enka Gebze Doğalgaz Santrali: 1,595 MW2kEnka Gebze…Enka İzmir Doğalgaz Santrali: 1,520 MW2kEnka İzmir…Bursa Doğalgaz Santrali: 1,432 MW1kBursa Doğa…Ambarlı B Doğalgaz Santrali: 1,351 MW1kAmbarlı B …Hamitabat Termik Santrali: 1,156 MW1kHamitabat …Aksa Antalya Doğalgaz Santrali: 1,150 MW1kAksa Antal…Bandırma Doğalgaz Santrali: 931 MW931Bandırma D…Erzin Doğalgaz Santrali: 904 MW904Erzin Doğa…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Can Enerji Entegre Elektrik Uretim AŞ. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.6°Cannual mean temp
2,037heating degree-days (base 18°C)
442cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
96 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 5 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 15 °CON: 10 °CND: 7 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 17% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 44/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #29 largest gas power plant of 32 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 32 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,414 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.138, 27.8653 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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