Gebze Çolakoğlu power station is a 95 MW coal power plant in Kocaeli, Turkey. It is operated by Marmara Elektrik AŞ. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 118,885 homes (estimated). It ranks #116 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 563,700 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 131,399 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 34.3% 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 CT-6297.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Marmara Elektrik AŞ.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.8°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 22% 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: 42/100 — 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.
The #33 largest coal power plant of 38 in Turkey by capacity.
Turkey has 38 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 28,314 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 40.7776, 29.5386 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
