Tekirdağ Malkara power station — Turkey

Tekirdağ Malkara power station is a 1,000 MW coal power station in Tekirdağ, Turkey. It ranks #88 of 502 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. 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 GEM_coa_tekirdagmalkara_trkiy.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 1,000 MW, Tekirdağ Malkara power station is well above the median coal plant in Turkey (630 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Shelved” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #64 largest coal power plant of 184 in Turkey by capacity.

Turkey has 184 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 147,855 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• İÇDAŞ Biga power station · Coal · 405 MW · Çanakkale
• İÇDAŞ Biga power station · Coal · 1,605 MW · Canakkale
• İÇDAŞ Bekirli power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Çanakkale
• İÇDAŞ Bekirli-2 power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Canakkale
• Kirazlıdere power complex · Coal · 1,600 MW · Çanakkale
• Naren Karabiga power station · Coal · 1,960 MW · Çanakkale

Location

Coordinates 40.638726, 27.004295 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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