Soma Kolin power station is a 510 MW coal power station in Balikesir, Turkey. It is operated by Hidro-Gen Enerji İth İhr Dağ Tic AŞ. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 638,228 homes (estimated). It ranks #51 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 2,703,700 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 630,233 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6269.
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 Hidro-Gen Enerji İth İhr Dağ Tic AŞ.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.3°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 13% 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.
The #19 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.
Coordinates 39.3166, 27.7489 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
