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Kapidag

Wind power plant in Balikesir, Turkey. Approximate location 40.489, 27.6896.

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Kapidag is a 28 MW wind power plant in Balikesir, Turkey. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 23,827 homes (estimated). It ranks #168 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 11.1% of Turkey's electricity; the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

28MW installed capacity
23,827homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018875.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Turkey

Osmaniye: 135 MW135OsmaniyeBandırma Kurşunlu: 87 MW87Bandırma K…Balabani: 50 MW50BalabaniTokat: 40 MW40TokatKapidag: 28 MW28KapidagGERES: 28 MW28GERESBozyaka: 13 MW13BozyakaBozcaada: 10 MW10Bozcaada

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

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.8°Cannual mean temp
2,160heating degree-days (base 18°C)
279cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
272 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 5 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 14 °CON: 10 °CND: 7 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 12% 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: 45/100 — 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 #5 largest wind power plant of 8 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 8 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 390 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.489, 27.6896 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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