Mersin Camis power station is a 250 MW gas power station in Mersin, Turkey. It is operated by Camiş Elektrik Üretim AŞ. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 281,571 homes (estimated). It ranks #75 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 382,010 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 89,047 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 22.1% 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-6302.
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 Camiş Elektrik Üretim AŞ.
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.8°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 66% 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: 25/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~3% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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 #21 largest gas power plant of 32 in Turkey by capacity.
Turkey has 32 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 19,414 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 36.8145, 34.735 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
