Yatağan Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Turkey in Yatağan,

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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

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from mines such as Turgut and can produce 3,780 GWh annually, the least productive power station in Turkey. The area is a

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air pollution hotspot and the

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caused by Yatağan and neighboring Kemerköy power station 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 9000 premature deaths. Two workers were killed in 2018 and the plant's safety has been criticized by the Chamber of Engineers. In 2018 the plant received 70 million

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capacity payments, and 94 million lira in 2019. In 2019 local people protested against 48 villages being destroyed by expansion of the mine feeding the plant. Opponents of the coal mining also claim it threatens the ancient city of

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. ''İklim Değişikliği Politika ve Araştırma Derneği'' (Climate Change Policy and Research Association) said that the plant was given a 5 year licence despite not having rehabilitated former ash storage landfill.

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