Cenal power station is a 1320-megawatt coal-fired power station in Turkey in

Çanakkale Province Çanakkale Province ( tr, ) is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. It takes its name from the city of Çanakkale. Like Istanbul, Çanakkale province has a European (Thrace) and an Asian (Anatolia) part. The Eu ...

, which burns imported and local coal. The plant was financed by Turkish banks and is owned by

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and

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and receives capacity payments. Environmentalists, such as

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, attempted to stop construction with protests, and legal action against the

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. Cenal is on the Global Coal Exit List. It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2062, would prevent over 4000 premature deaths.

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