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EÜAS Hopa Termik Sant. Artvin

Oil power plant in Artvin, Turkey. Approximate location 41.4193, 41.4393.

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EÜAS Hopa Termik Sant. Artvin is a 50 MW oil power plant in Artvin, Turkey. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 37,542 homes (estimated). It ranks #141 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 3,487 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 813 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 0.3% of Turkey's electricity; the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

50MW installed capacity
37,542homes powered (est.)
3,487t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018693.

3,487 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

813passenger cars driven for a year
455homes' yearly energy use
58,117tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Turkey

EÜAS Ambarlı FO Sant. Istanbul: 630 MW630EÜAS Ambar…Silopi power station: 182 MW182Silopi pow…Samsun1-2: 163 MW163Samsun1-2EÜAS Hopa Termik Sant. Artvin: 50 MW50EÜAS Hopa …Kayseri Metalworks power station: 30 MW30Kayseri Me…

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

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.6°Cannual mean temp
2,441heating degree-days (base 18°C)
127cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
675 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 20 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 13 °CON: 9 °CND: 5 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 1% 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: 50/100 — 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 #4 largest oil power plant of 5 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 5 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,055 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.4193, 41.4393 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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