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IZMIT REFINERY

Other power plant in Kocaeli, Turkey. Approximate location 40.748, 29.7682.

OtherKocaeliTurkeyCO₂ reported

IZMIT REFINERY is a 180 MW other power station in Kocaeli, Turkey. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 135,154 homes (estimated). It ranks #87 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 121,949 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 28,426 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

180MW installed capacity
135,154homes powered (est.)
121,949t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6324.

121,949 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

28,426passenger cars driven for a year
15,904homes' yearly energy use
2,032,483tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest other plants in Turkey

Bursa B power station: 1,400 MW1kBursa B po…Aliaga Habas power station: 1,138 MW1kAliaga Hab…Yahsihan power station: 940 MW940Yahsihan p…Gebze Yeni power station: 865 MW865Gebze Yeni…Tekirdağ power station: 495 MW495Tekirdağ p…Bursa - Bis Energi power station: 490 MW490Bursa - Bi…Gebze Dilovasi power station: 377 MW377Gebze Dilo…Petkim power station: 376 MW376Petkim pow…

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

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.5°Cannual mean temp
2,788heating degree-days (base 18°C)
67cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
798 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 17 °CJJ: 19 °CJA: 19 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 12 °CON: 8 °CND: 4 °CD19 °C

Heating degree-days here run 13% 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: 57/100 — 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 #15 largest other power plant of 43 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 43 other power plants in this dataset, together about 10,282 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 40.748, 29.7682 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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