Kadıncık 1 hydroelectric plant ( tr, Kadıncık 1 Hidroelektrik Santrali or shortly ''Kadıncık 1 HES''), is a privately owned

hydroelectric power station Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...

located in

Mersin Province Mersin Province ( tr, ), formerly İçel Province ( tr, ), is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is Mersin, which is composed of fo ...

, Turkey.

Geography

The plant is in the southern slopes of the

Toros Mountains The Taurus Mountains ( Turkish: ''Toros Dağları'' or ''Toroslar'') are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir ...

and on Kadıncık River, a tributary of

Berdan River The Berdan (also Baradān or Baradā), the ancient Cydnus ( el, Κύδνος), is a river in Mersin Province, south Turkey. The historical city of Tarsus is on the river and it is therefore sometimes called the Tarsus River. Originally the water ...

. The nearest village is Meşelik. Administratively, Kadıncık 1 is in

Çamlıyayla Çamlıyayla is a town and district of Mersin Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The district has a population of 10,558 of which 3335 lives in the town of Çamlıyayl Çamlıyayla is a small district high in the Taurus Mountains. I ...

ilçe The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...

(district) of Mersin Province at . Its distance to Tarsus is and to Mersin is . The average altitude of the reservoir is about .

History

The plant was put into service in 1971. In 2016, within the privatization program Kadıncık 1 plant together with Kadıncık 2 plant was purchased by İbrahim Çeçen Holding for 864.1 million (where $1 = 2.887 TL) in 2016.

Technical characteristics

The installed power is 2 x 35 MW. The annual energy capacity is 315 GWh. If this energy is used solely in homes; it is equivalent to the average consumption of 74,977 households. Kadıncık is the third highest energy producer in Mersin Province.Energy atlas
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History

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