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Deniz

Geothermal power plant in Aydin, Turkey. Approximate location 37.8592, 27.6145.

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Deniz is a 24 MW geothermal power plant in Aydin, Turkey. It is operated by Kipaş Holding Enerji Grubu. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 45,051 homes (estimated). It ranks #174 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2012, it is around 14 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, geothermal supplies about 3.0% of Turkey's electricity; the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

24MW installed capacity
45,051homes powered (est.)
2012commissioned (~14 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018962.

Capacity vs largest geothermal plants in Turkey

Efeler: 114 MW114EfelerKizildere 2: 80 MW80Kizildere 2Pamukören: 68 MW68PamukörenGalip Hoca Germencik: 47 MW47Galip Hoca…Alaşehir: 45 MW45AlaşehirDora 3: 34 MW34Dora 3Deniz: 24 MW24DenizPamukören 2: 23 MW23Pamukören 2

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

Owner

Operated by Kipaş Holding Enerji Grubu.

Local climate & thermal context

This geothermal plant taps underground heat to raise steam that drives a turbine. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.8°Cannual mean temp
1,329heating degree-days (base 18°C)
901cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
246 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 9 °CFM: 11 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 20 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 18 °CON: 13 °CND: 9 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 46% 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: 31/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.

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 #7 largest geothermal power plant of 11 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 11 geothermal power plants in this dataset, together about 480 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.8592, 27.6145 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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