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Yunus Emre Termik Santrali

Coal power plant in Ankara, Turkey. Approximate location 39.9839, 31.6349.

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Yunus Emre Termik Santrali is a 145 MW coal power station in Ankara, Turkey. It is operated by Naskan Energy. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 181,457 homes (estimated). It ranks #98 of 278 Turkey power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 615,490 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 143,471 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).

145MW installed capacity
181,457homes powered (est.)
615,490t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018723.

615,490 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

143,471passenger cars driven for a year
80,267homes' yearly energy use
10,258,167tree 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

Afşin Elbistan Termik Santrali: 2,795 MW3kAfşin Elbi…ZETES power stations: 2,790 MW3kZETES powe…Zonguldak Eren (ZETES): 2,090 MW2kZonguldak …İÇDAŞ Biga power station: 1,605 MW2kİÇDAŞ Biga…Afşin-Elbistan power stations: 1,440 MW1kAfşin-Elbi…Cenal power station: 1,320 MW1kCenal powe…EMBA Hunutlu power station: 1,320 MW1kEMBA Hunut…İsken Sugözü power station: 1,210 MW1kİsken Sugö…

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

Owner

Operated by Naskan Energy.

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
2,579heating degree-days (base 18°C)
323cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
903 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 13 °CON: 7 °CND: 3 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 5% above 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: 52/100 — 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 #32 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 39.9839, 31.6349 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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