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Çatalağzı Power Station

Çatalağzı power station (ÇATES) is a coal-fired power station in Turkey. Its two units opened in 1990 and 1991, and it was privatised in 2014. The plant was shut down for not meeting new air pollution regulations for coal in Turkey in January 2020, but was granted a one-year temporary operating licence by the Turkish Environment Ministry in June.

History

The first long-distance transmission line was from Zonguldak to Istanbul in 1952.

Çatalağzı power station is located on a 100-hectare (250-acre) site three km (1.9 mi) from Çatalağzi and 17 km (11 mi) from Zonguldak. The plant was put in the 1974 investment plan to meet national electricity demand and to make use of some of the leftovers of coal preparation in the Zonguldak basin. As well as being close to the mines, other criteria were the availability of an ash and slag disposal site, the water needed by the power plant, proximity to the electricity consumption centers, and being far from earthquake faults.

Following the original 1948 ÇATES-A which retired in 1988, unit 1 of the plant then known as ÇATES-B was started in 1990 and unit 2 in 1991. The plant was privatised in 2014, it is the largest power station supplied by Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises.

Following debt restructuring in 2019, the owner, Bereket Energy, was renamed Aydem Energy.

Heath impact

The plant was shut down for not meeting new air pollution regulations for coal in Turkey in January 2020. In May 2020 Greenpeace applied to the Health Ministry to request the plant remain closed, saying that the country's air pollution increased the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. In June 2020 the Environment Ministry said that the plant had been made compliant with the legislation, gave it a one-year temporary licence and the plant restarted. In July 2020 the Right to Clean Air Platform complained that it was still emitting thick smoke.

It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2063, would prevent over 1000 premature deaths.

Operation

The two units consume on average 5,500 tonnes (5,400 long tons; 6,100 short tons) of coal.

Aydem received 36 million lira (about US$5 million) in capacity payments for 2020.

References

^ "Enerji". zonguldak.gov.tr. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
^ "Santral Direktörlüğü" [Plant Directorate]. Çatalağzı Termik Enerji Üretim A.Ş. (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-01-14.
^ "Restructuring massive debt, Bereket Enerji to trade hydroelectric, wind plants on stock market". Daily Sabah. 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
^ "Kara elmasın satışından 11 ayda 267 milyon 611 bin lira gelir" [From the sale of black diamonds, 267 million 611 thousand lira in 11 months]. Milliyet (in Turkish). 2020-12-20.
^ "Six coal-fired plants continue to emit thick smoke after end of suspension". Bianet. 2020-07-02.
^ "Koronavirüs döneminde filtresiz termik santraller kapatılmalı" [Thermal power plants without filters must be closed in the age of coronavirus]. Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 2020-05-22.
^ "Çatalağzı Termik Santrali yeniden çalışmaya başlıyor" [Çatalağzı Power Plant starts operating again]. Enerji Günlüğü. 2020-06-03.
^ Curing Chronic Coal: The health benefits of a 2030 coal phase out in Turkey (Report). Health and Environment Alliance. 2022.
^ "TEİAŞ". www.teias.gov.tr. Retrieved 2021-02-03.

External links

Çatalağzı power station on Global Energy Monitor

Power stations in Turkey

Nuclear

Akkuyu – 4,800 MW
Sinop – 4,480 MW

Renewable
energy

Geothermal	Gümüşköy – 13 MW Kızıldere – 95 MW
Hydroelectric	Adıgüzel – 62 MW Akköprü – 115 MW Aksu – 13 MW Alaköprü – 26 MW Alkumru – 265.5 M Almus – 27 MW Alpaslan-1 – 160 MW Alpaslan-2 – 280 MW Altınkaya – 700 MW Arkun – 237 MW Artvin – 340 MW Aslantaş – 138 MW Atasu – 5 MW Atatürk – 2,400 MW Bahçelik – 7 MW Batman – 160 MW Berdan – 10 MW Berke – 510 MW Birecik – 672 MW Borçka – 300 MW Boyabat – 513 MW Burç Bendi – 27.9 MW Çamlıgöze – 33 MW Çatalan – 169 MW Çetin – 405 MW Çınarcık – 100 MW Cindere – 29 MW Çine – 47 MW Cizre −240 MW Demirköprü – 69 MW Derbent – 58 MW Deriner – 670 MW Devecikonağı – 29 MW Dicle – 110 MW Ermenek – 300 MW Garzan – 49 MW Gezende – 159 MW Gökçekaya – 278 MW Gönen – 11 MW Güllübağ – 96 MW Gürsöğüt −242 MW
Solar	Greenway CSP Mersin – 6 MW Karapınar – 1,000 MW
Waste	Istanbul Waste Power Plant
Wind	Aliağa – 193 MW Bahçe – 135 MW Çanta – 47.5 MW Dağpazarı – 39 MW Mut – 33 MW Şamlı – 174 MW Soma – 140.4 MW

Fossil

Coal-fired

Afşin-Elbistan C – 1800 MW proposed
Afşin-Elbistan B – 1440 MW
ZETES-3 – 1400 MW
Afşin-Elbistan A – 1355 MW
Cenal – 1320 MW
Emba Hunutlu – 1320 MW
İsken Sugözü – 1308 MW
ZETES-2 – 1230 MW
Atlas – 1200 MW
Bekirli – 1200 MW
Soma – 990 MW
Kemerköy – 653 MW
Yatağan – 630 MW
Çayırhan – 620 MW
Seyitömer – 600 MW
Soma Kolin – 510 MW
Kangal – 457 MW
Tufanbeyli – 450 MW
Yeniköy – 420 MW
Biga – 405 MW
Şırnak Silopi – 405 MW
Tunçbilek – 365 MW
İzdemir – 350 MW
Çan-2 – 330 MW
18 Mart Çan – 320 MW
Çatalağzı – 315 MW
Bolu Göynük – 270 MW
Orhaneli – 210 MW
Çolakoğlu – 190 MW
ZETES-1 – 160 MW
List of active coal-fired
Silahtarağa – now museums

Gas-fired

Gebze - 1540 MW
Unimar Marmara Ereğlisi – 480 MW

Power stations projected or under construction in italics

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