Bingöl power station

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Bingöl power station, also known as Bingöl-Karlıova power station, is a proposed 150-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Bingöl province, Turkey.

Location

The map below shows the location of the border between Kiğı and Adaklı districts of Bingöl province; the plant would be built straddling the two districts.

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Background on Plant

In February 2013, Aksa Enerji Üretim A.Ş. (a subsidiary of Kazancı Holding) began the environmental permitting process to build a 150 MW coal-fired power plant in Bingöl province. The project would also include a coal mine, and the plant would thus presumably be a mine-to-mouth plant.

In May 2013, Aksa Enerji won a bid to mine a lignite field in Bingöl province with 88 million tons of reserves, and to build an adjacent 150-MW mine-to-mouth coal-fired power plant.

In October 2013, Aksa announced that, due to increases in borrowing costs, the company had decided to cancel the project, and to focus on its Bolu-Goynuk power station project. Aksa paid a $5 million fee to TKI in exchange for cancelling the project.

With no developments since the application, the project appears to be abandoned, although there were reports in 2017 that the project may be tendered to private investors through a royalty agreement. But as of April 2018 there is no further news of the project and it does not appear on the list of Bingöl privatizations. Given the distance of Bingöl from power consumers in the west and delays in other coal plant privatizations the project appears defunct.

Project Details

• Sponsor: Aksa Enerji Üretim A.Ş.
• Parent company: Kazancı Holding
• Location: Adaklı districts, Bingöl province, Turkey
• Coordinates: 39.31575, 40.889156 (approximate)
• Status: Cancelled
• Detailed status:
• Gross capacity: 150 MW
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• Coal source: Turkey
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