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Kentsa power station

Other power plant in Kocaeli, Turkey. Approximate location 40.768, 29.9891.

OtherKocaeliTurkeyCO₂ reported

Kentsa power station is a 118 MW other power station in Kocaeli, Turkey. It is operated by Enerjisa Enerji Uretim AS. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 88,375 homes (estimated). It ranks #110 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 88,733 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 20,684 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

118MW installed capacity
88,375homes powered (est.)
88,733t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6332.

88,733 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

20,684passenger cars driven for a year
11,572homes' yearly energy use
1,478,883tree 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).

Owner

Operated by Enerjisa Enerji Uretim AS. All plants by this company →

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 40.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.0°Cannual mean temp
1,868heating degree-days (base 18°C)
428cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
144 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 5 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 15 °CON: 11 °CND: 7 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 24% 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: 41/100 — 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 #24 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.

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Location

Coordinates 40.768, 29.9891 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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