Karakaya Dam is a 1,800 MW hydro power station in Malatya, Turkey. It is operated by Elektrik Üretim A.Ş. (EÜAŞ), Turkey. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,802,057 homes (estimated). It ranks #5 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 16.2% 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 WRI1018937.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Elektrik Üretim A.Ş. (EÜAŞ), Turkey.
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 38.2°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 17% 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: 44/100 — 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 #2 largest hydro power plant of 28 in Turkey by capacity.
Turkey has 28 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 13,839 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 38.2264, 39.1353 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
