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Orhaneli power station

Coal power plant in Bursa, Turkey. Approximate location 39.9502, 28.8709.

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Orhaneli power station is a 210 MW coal power station in Bursa, Turkey. It is operated by EÜAŞ. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 262,800 homes (estimated). It ranks #78 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 989,620 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 230,681 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 34.3% of Turkey's electricity; the national grid averages 475 gCO₂/kWh (43.3% low-carbon) (2025).

210MW installed capacity
262,800homes powered (est.)
989,620t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1992commissioned (~34 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018721.

989,620 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

230,681passenger cars driven for a year
129,058homes' yearly energy use
16,493,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Turkey

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

Owner

Operated by EÜAŞ. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.8°Cannual mean temp
2,443heating degree-days (base 18°C)
190cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
613 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 13 °CON: 8 °CND: 5 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 1% 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: 50/100 — 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 #30 largest coal power plant of 38 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 38 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 28,314 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 39.9502, 28.8709 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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