Enka İzmir Doğalgaz Santrali is a 1,580 MW gas power station in Izmir, Turkey. It is operated by Enka Elektrik. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.8 million homes (estimated). It ranks #25 of 502 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 1,975,200 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 460k 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018750.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000405909); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 1,580 MW, Enka İzmir Doğalgaz Santrali is well above the median gas plant in Turkey (180 MW). Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Enka Elektrik.
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 38.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 44% 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: 32/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
A gas turbine here also runs ~1% 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.
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 moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness 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 #3 largest gas power plant of 142 in Turkey by capacity.
Turkey has 142 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 57,910 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 38.7467, 26.9563 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Enka İzmir Doğalgaz Santrali is a 1,580 MW source-record gas power plant in Izmir, Turkey.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,779,531 homes (estimated).
Enka İzmir Doğalgaz Santrali is operated by Enka Elektrik.
Enka İzmir Doğalgaz Santrali has modelled emissions of about 1,975,200 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
