Kemerköy power station is a 630 MW coal-fired power station in Turkey in Kemerköy,

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, completed in 1985, which burns lignite mined locally. Originally state owned by Electricity Generation Company it was sold in 2014 to Limak- IC İçtaş. In 2020 it received 140 million lira ($) capacity payments. The smokestack of the facility has a height of 300 metre

The area is a

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air pollution hotspot and the

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caused by Kemerköy and neighboring

Yatağan power station Yatağan Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Turkey in Yatağan, Muğla Province in the south-west of the country. Currently owned by Aydem Enerji it has a 120m chimney. Yatağan thermal power plant consumes 5.4 million tons of coal ...

and

Yeniköy power station Yeniköy power station is a 420 MW List of coal fired power stations in Turkey, coal-fired power station in Turkey in Yeniköy, Muğla built in the late 20th century, which burns lignite mined locally. The plant is owned by Limak- IC İçtaş and ...

is estimated to have caused 45,000 premature deaths. It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2063, would prevent over 5000 premature deaths. In 2019 local people protested against 48 villages being destroyed by expansion of the mine feeding the plant. The company has been granted a permit to cut down

Akbelen Forest Akbelen Forest is a woodland in the Muğla Province of Turkey, located near İkizköy village. In July 2023, most of the forest was cut down by YK Energy to make way for expansion of İkizköy lignite mine, which supplies the nearby Yeniköy pow ...

to make way for the mine expansion, but in 2021 inhabitant of İkizköy village continue to protest and filed a lawsuit claiming that the permit should not have been granted without an environmental impact assessment. The company says that Akbelen was allocated to the coal mine when the power plant was built, and that the General Directorate of Forestry defined it as an “industrial plantation area for 2019”. The plant was inspected by

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in 2019 before new pollution regulations came into force at the beginning of 2020, and they made various improvement recommendations, such as better groundwater monitoring near the ash ponds. Despite improvements such as better air filters not being completed on all units, the plant was allowed to operate on a temporary licence in 2020, and in January 2021 the plant was granted a second temporary operating licence with a requirement to submit an environmental report to the ministry in June. The plant was evacuated due to and slightly damaged by the

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. The company Yenikoy Kemerkoy Elektrik Uretim ve Ticaret AS is on the Global Coal Exit List compiled by the NGO

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