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Eber power station

Biomass power plant in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. Approximate location 38.7493, 30.5572.

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Eber power station is a 27 MW biomass power plant in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. It is operated by Oltan Ve Koleoglu Elektrik Ve Enerji Uretimi Ticaret AŞ. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 37,167 homes (estimated). It ranks #171 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 2.4% of Turkey's electricity; the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

27MW installed capacity
37,167homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6379.

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

Owner

Operated by Oltan Ve Koleoglu Elektrik Ve Enerji Uretimi Ticaret AŞ. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 38.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.3°Cannual mean temp
2,964heating degree-days (base 18°C)
170cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,245 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 1 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 12 °CON: 6 °CND: 2 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 21% above 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: 62/100 — 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.

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 #12 largest biomass power plant of 45 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 45 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 922 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 38.7493, 30.5572 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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