Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
Across the 95 Turkey power plants carrying an asset-level CO₂ figure in this open dataset, total emissions are about 123 Mt CO₂/yr. The single largest emitter, ZETES power stations (coal), accounts for about 13% of that 95-plant reported subset (not of the whole country). The top three owners — Eren Enerji Elektrik Üretim AŞ, İÇDAŞ Elektrik Enerjisi Üretim ve Yatırım AŞ, Cenal Elektrik — control roughly 27% of that 95-plant reported subset. Most of these plants sit in a temperate Köppen climate zone.
CO₂ — measured (US EPA / EU ETS) or modelled (Climate TRACE), per plant · backbone WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0) · climate: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). CC BY 4.0.
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afşin-Elbistan power stations | Coal | 9,283 |
| 2 | İğneada nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 5,300 |
| 3 | Akkuyu nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 4,800 |
| 4 | Sinop nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 4,800 |
| 5 | ZETES power stations | Coal | 3,450 |
| 6 | Afşin Elbistan Termik Santrali | Coal | 2,795 |
| 7 | ZETES power stations | Coal | 2,790 |
| 8 | Atatürk Dam | Hydro | 2,405 |
| 9 | Zonguldak Eren (ZETES) | Coal | 2,090 |
| 10 | İskenderun power station | Coal | 2,000 |
| 11 | Karapinar Konya Şeker power station | Coal | 2,000 |
| 12 | METES power station | Coal | 2,000 |
| 13 | Naren Karabiga power station | Coal | 1,960 |
| 14 | Karakaya Dam | Hydro | 1,800 |
| 15 | İÇDAŞ Biga power station | Coal | 1,605 |
| 16 | Enka Gebze power station | Gas | 1,600 |
| 17 | Akdeniz Enerji power station | Coal | 1,600 |
| 18 | Babadere power station | Coal | 1,600 |
| 19 | Bandırma Elektrik power station | Coal | 1,600 |
| 20 | Filyos power station | Coal | 1,600 |
Inzonex PowerAtlas (2026). Asset-level power-plant CO2 emissions — Turkey. Derived from WRI GPPD, Climate TRACE, US EPA GHGRP and EU ETS (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/poweratlas/turkey/
There are 502 power plants in Turkey in this open dataset, with about 239,963 MW of total capacity.
Afşin-Elbistan power stations is the largest at about 9,283 MW (coal).
The most common plant type in this dataset is coal (184 plants), across 10 fuel types in total.
Turkey's grid carbon intensity is about 475 gCO₂/kWh, with 43.3% low-carbon generation (<a href="https://ember-energy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ember</a> / <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy" rel="nofollow">Our World in Data</a> (CC BY 4.0)).
Power plants in Turkey