Yeniköy power station
{{#badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-Turkeycoal}}Yeniköy power station is a 420-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Muğla province, Turkey.
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Location
The undated satellite photo below shows the plant, which is near Bağdamları city, Bodrum district, Muğla province.
Background on Plant
The two 210-MW coal-fired units of the Yeniköy mine-to-mouth coal-fired power plant were completed in 1986 and 1987. Coal for the plant comes from an adjacent lignite mine. The plant was built and owned by EÜAŞ, the Turkish state-owned energy utility.[1][2]
In 2013, EÜAŞ announced plans to privatize the Yeniköy plant. These plans were met with forceful opposition from the plant's workers, including an occupation of the plant in April 2014. The plant is now owned by IC İÇTAŞ Enerji, part of IC Holding[3][4] and Limak Energy, part of Limak Holding.
Yeniköy is among three plants - along with Yatağan power station and Kemerköy power station - planned for rehabilitation in Muğla province, to extend the life of the plants by up to 30 years. Many residents oppose the rehabilitation.[5]
Description of Expansion
Platts listed an expansion of the Yeniköy plant (either to or by 630 MW).[6] No plans or mention of the supposed expansion can be found. It is possible that this was a confusion of the Yeniköy plant with the nearby 630-MW Kemerköy plant.
Environmental Impact
In February 2019 the Right to Clean Air Platform, a coalition of 17 professional organizations and NGOs, successfully campaigned to stop the Turkish Parliament from delaying stronger air pollution requirements for some old coal plants from 2019 until 2021.[7] The delay would have allowed Yeniköy to continue to operate without a desulphurization system or modernised dust filters.[8] In November 2019 the Turkish Parliament approved a bill to extend the deadline for stronger emissions standards to 2021.[9] However on Dec. 2, 2019 President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vetoed the bill and said this veto was motivated by "environmental sensitivity".[10]
As a result, Yeniköy and other privatised coal power plants that have not completed the required infrastructure including filtration system must complete these requirements beginning Jan. 1, 2020 or these plants will face closure and/or fines.[11]
Plant Details
- Owner: Yeniköy Kemerköy Elektrik[12]
- Parent company: IC Holding (via IC İçtaş Enerji), and Limak Holding
- Location: Bağdamları city, Bodrum district, Muğla province, Turkey
- Coordinates: 37.1401504, 27.8728547 (exact)
- Status: Operating
- Gross capacity: 2 x 210 MW
- Type: Subcritical
- Coal type: Lignite
- Coal source: Yeniköy coal mine, Turkey
- Source of financing: İş Bankası, Ziraat, Garanti[13]
- WRI ID: WRI1018713
- EBC ID: TR-23
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References
- ↑ Yenikoy Coal Power Plant Turkey, Global Energy Observatory, accessed May 2014.
- ↑ Tarihçe, Yeniköy Yatağan Elektrik Üretim ve Ticaret A.Ş. website, accessed May 2014.
- ↑ Santrallere özelleştirme işgali, CNN Türk, Apr. 18, 2014.
- ↑ Kemerköy Termik Santrali ve Yeniköy Termik Santrali'nin ihalesi yapılıyor, Bugün, Apr. 18, 2014.
- ↑ "The Real Costs of Coal: Muğla," CAN Europe, July 2019
- ↑ "World Electric Power Plants Database,", Platts, December 2013. The database is not available online but can be purchased from Platts.
- ↑ Step forward for health protection in Turkey: Proposal to extend the pollution exemptions given to privatised coal power plants withdrawn, Health And Environment Alliance, Feb. 15, 2019
- ↑ Turkish Parliament will vote about polluting coal power plants next week, Health And Environment Alliance, Feb. 1, 2019
- ↑ 50’inci madde kabul edildi, Yeşil Ekonomi, 22 Nov. 2019
- ↑ Erdoğan Vetoes Bill Postponing Installation of Filters to Coal-Fired Plants, Bianet, 02 December 2019.
- ↑ TBMM Plan Ve Bütçe Komisyonu, Santrallere Filtre Düzenlemesini Yeniden Görüştü, Meclis Haber, 4 December 2019.
- ↑ "YENİKÖY KEMERKÖY," company website, accessed June 2018
- ↑ "Coal & Climate Change - 2017," Önder Algedik, Aug 2017
