CCGT Plants in Turkey - Marmara
Adapazari/Gebze
Location: Sakarya
Operator: Enka Power
Configuration: Three 790-MW, 2+1 CCGT blocks with 9001FA+ gas turbines
Operation: 2002
Fuel: natural gas
HRSG supplier: CMI
T/G supplier: GE, Alstom
EPC: Bechtel, Enka
Quick facts: In Oct 1997, TEAS announced that a consortium of the InterGen and Enka had won the exclusive right to negotiate for 3,500-MW of CCGT capacity, one of the largest private-power development schemes in the world. In Sep 2000, the partners signed $1.5bn of loan agreements for the three projects and construction started in the summer of 2000. The gas turbine purchase amounted to about $900mn, the largest order for such equipment ever in Turkey and the largest single order for the 9FA machine to that date. GE also has a 16yr gas turbine service contract. At completion, Adapazari/Gebze was the world's largest dry-cooled CCGT complex. The cooling towers are 135m tall with a 115m diameter. Enka bought out InterGen in 2005.

Photograph courtesy of Power
Re-posted 24 Sep 2011

Bis Enerji
Location: Bursa
Operator: Bis Enerji Elektrik Uretim AS
Configuration: 124-MW, 2+1 CCGT with LM5000 and 6001B gas turbines, 185-MW, 3+1 CCGT with LM6000 gas turbines CHP, 1 X 48-MW LM6000 gas turbine
Operation: 1993-2007
Fuel: natural gas
HRSG supplier: Nooter, Vogt
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: S&S, Mimag
Quick facts: This industrial CHP plant has been expanded steadily and is the largest of its kind in Turkey. Bis Enerji was founded in 1992 as an autoproducer and reconstituted in 2005 in accordance with new market regulations. In the Bursa OSB, Bis Enerji supplies the Nergis and Bis Group textile plants. The company also serves about 50 other customers and is connected to the TEİAŞ grid.

Photograph courtesy of GE Energy
Re-posted 7 Jan 2012

Bursa Bosen
Location: Bursa
Operator: Bosen Enerji Uretimi AS
Configuration: 75-MW, 1+1 CCGT with W251 gas turbine, 69-MW, 1+1 CCGT with with LM6000 gas turbine, 120-MW, 2+1 CCGT with LM6000 gas turbines CHP
Operation: 1999-2010
Fuel: natural gas
HRSG supplier: Nooter, Aalborg
T/G supplier: WH, MHI, GE, Brush
EPC: Tekser Insaat, Bibb & Assoc, EPRO, Mimag, ENPRODE, Mastir
Quick facts: BOSEN is a subsidiary of Bursa Organized Industrial Zone which is one of the largest industrial complexes in Turkey, constructed on a 3,156 hectare area with 959 active companies employing over 100,000 staff.

Photograph courtesy of Aalborg
Posted 1 Oct 2011

Bursa Entek
Location: Bursa
Operator: AES Entek
Configuration: 100-MW,21+1 CCGT with LM6000 gas turbines, 35-MW LM2500+ gas turbineCHP
Operation: 1998-2003
Fuel: natural gas
HRSG supplier: NEM
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Gama, Simcelik, Mastir Enerji, Engineering Group Istanbul
Quick facts: This plant is in the Bursa Demirtaş industrial zone and was first developed to supply the Tofaş AŞ textile works. In 2011, Entek and AES Corp signed a cooperation agreement and moved several Entek thermal plans in to the venture.

Photograph courtesy of AES Entek
Posted 28 May 2012

Canakkale
Location: Canakkale
Operator: Enerjisa Enerji Uretim AS
Configuration: 63-MW, 1+1 CCGT with 6001B gas turbine CHP
Operation: 2002
Fuel: natural gas, naphtha, oil
HRSG supplier: SFL
T/G supplier: GE, Elin, Siemens
EPC: Siemens, Mimag
Quick facts: In Mar 2001, Siemens Nederland ordered four 6001B gas turbines from GE's Essen factory for three different Enerjisa CCGT projects. The Canakkale power plant supplies steam and electricity to a cement plant.

Photograph courtesy of Enerjisa
Posted 2 Sep 2009

Hamitabat
Location: Kirklareli
Operator: Hamitabat Elektrik Üretim
Configuration: Two 600-MW, 4+2 CCGT blocks with GT13D2 gas turbines
Operation: 1985-1989
Fuel: natural gas
HRSG supplier: CMI
T/G supplier: ABB
EPC: BBC, Enka
Quick facts: In Dec 1984, Turkiye Elektrik Kürumu signed contracts with BBC and Enka for the turnkey supply of the first block and a repeat order was signed in Jul 1986. At completion, Hamitabat was the world's largest combined-cycle employing dry cooling. In Dec 2005, Alstom won a two-year, €40mn contract for four GT13DM turbine upgrades, compressor blading, reconditioned rotors and the replacement of combustor components.

Photograph courtesy of Hamitabat Elektrik Üretim
Posted 17 Dec 2005

Hereke Cement-1
Location: Kocaeli
Operator: Nuh Enerji Elektrik Uretim AS
Configuration: 38.5-MW single-shaft CCGT with LM2500+ gas turbine CHP
Operation: 1999
HRSG supplier: NEM
T/G supplier: GE, Stewart & Stevenson
EPC: NEM, Gama, EPRO
Quick facts: This plant supplies power and steam to the Nuh Cement works at Hereke.

Photograph courtesy of EPRO
Posted 24 Aug 2008

Hereke Cement-2
Location: Kocaeli
Operator: Nuh Enerji Elektrik Uretim AS
Configuration: 124-MW, 2+1 CCGT with LM2500+ gas turbines CHP
Operation: 2003-2005
HRSG supplier: IES
T/G supplier: GE, Thermodyn
EPC: IES, Cengiz Construction
Quick facts: This is the second-phase CHP at the Nuh Cement factory at Hereke.

Photograph courtesy of Istraenergo
Posted 10 Dec 2006

Kentsa
Location: Kocaeli
Operator: Enerjisa Enerji Uretim AS
Configuration: 120-MW, 2+1 CCGT with 6001B gas turbines CHP
Operation: 1997-2000
Fuel: natural gas, naphtha
HRSG supplier: NEM
T/G supplier: GE, Thomassen, Alstom, ABB
EPC: Yaman Enerji
Quick facts: This CHP plant serves an industrial park.

Photograph courtesy of Enerjisa
Posted 2 Sep 2009

Kirklareli
Location: Kirklareli
Operator: Alarko-Altek Elektrik
Configuration: 80-MW, 2+1 CCGT with LM2500+P gas turbines
Operation: 2005
HRSG supplier: IST
T/G supplier: GE
EPC: Alarko
Quick facts: In 1998, Altek signed a contract with MENR to build this plant and the gas turbines were ordered in early 2001. Completion was delayed until Oct 2005 by the lack of a transmission connection. The new plant started as a BOT development with guaranteed power sales, but by completion, the new Energy Market Law had gone into force so the plant sells power on the open market. The plant is connected to the grid at 154kV.

Photograph courtesy of Turkiye Muteahhitler Birliggi
Posted 9 Aug 2006

Luleburgaz
Location: Kirklareli
Operator: Zorlu Enerji
Configuration: 2 X 7 MW Tempest gas turbines, 1 X 43-MW LM6000 CHP
Operation: 1997-1999
HRSG supplier: Aalborg
T/G supplier: ABB, GE
Quick facts: In 2004, the HRSG on the Tempest machines was changed out.

Photograph courtesy of Zorlu Enerji
Posted 9 Sep 2006

Marmara Ereglesi (Uni-Mar)
Location: Tekirdag
Operator: International Power plc
Configuration: 480-MW, 2+1 CCGT with GT13E2 gas turbines
Operation: 1999
Fuel: natural gas, oil
HRSG supplier: CMI
T/G supplier: ABB, Kawasaki
EPC: ABB, Entes, Atkins
Quick facts: This plant was the first full-scale IPP in Turkey to be completed. The turnkey order was awarded to ABB in Nov 1996 by a joint venture of Unit Energy and Marubeni, which now share equal ownership shares with International Power. Marmara is the site of an LNG terminal owned by Botas. A syndicate of international banks including Banque Paribas, BHP Bank, Citibank, Fuji Bank, Generale Bank, National Westminster, Sakura Bank, and Vakif Bank along with the Japanese  EXIM and MITI provided almost $500mn in financing for the $620mn project. No sovereign Turkish credit were involved in the transaction.

Photograph courtesy of International Power plc
Posted 13 Aug 2008

Trakya Delta
Location: Tekirdağ
Operator: Palmet Enerji AS
Configuration: 64-MW, 1+1 CCGT with LM6000PC-Sprint gas turbine CHP
Operation: 2009
Fuel: natural gas
HRSG supplier: Aalborg
T/G supplier: GE, Dresser
EPC: Palmet
Quick facts: Palmet's first thermal power project is on a 4ha site in an industrial zone 3km from Btiyiikkaristiran. The construction and procurement contracts were signed in Q2 2008 and the facility has been connected to the Botas gas pipeline system by a 1km spur and to the 154kV grid. In Dec 2008, the IFC approved loans to Palmet for this and other energy projects.

Photograph courtesy of Palmet Enerji AS
Posted 26 Apr 2009

Trakya
Location: Tekirdag
Operator: Trakya Elektrik
Configuration: 495-MW, 2+1 CCGT with V94.2 gas turbines
Operation: 1999
Fuel: natural gas, diesel oil
HRSG supplier: Nooter
T/G supplier: Siemens
EPC: Black & Veatch, Gama, Enron, EPRO
Quick facts: This plant is on the Sea of Marmara 100km west of Istanbul. It was built by Enron and completed in Sep 1999 on a BOOT basis pursuant to an contract entered with the Turkish Ministry of Energy. The contract was designed with larger upfront capacity fixed payments to repay the original debt financing within a 10yr period ending 2009 and Trakya owns and operates the power plant during the authorization period, which initially ends in June 2019 and may be extended subject to conditions set out in the contract. After Enron's bankruptcy, its international plants were taken over by Prisma Energy. The plant was then majority-owned by AEI Services LLC. In Dec 2012, AEI sold its stake to Inter RAO UES JSC.

Photograph courtesy of Turkiye Muteahhitler Birligi
Posted 2 Sep 2006

Uğur Enerji
Location: Tekirdağ
Operator: Uğur Enerji Üretim Ticaret ve Sanayi A.Ş.
Configuration: 60-MW, 1+1 CCGT with LM6000PC gas turbine CHP
Operation: 2010
Fuel: natural gas
HRSG supplier: IST
T/G supplier: GE, Hangzhou
EPC: Engineering Group Istanbul, Odaktes, Eba Mühendislik
Quick facts: Ugur Energji was founded in 2007 to provided power and steam for textile industries in an industrial estate in Cerkezkoy. The plant went online in Mar 2010. Annual electricity production is about 500 GWh.

Photograph courtesy of Uğur Enerji
Posted 28 May 2012

Abbreviations

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 16-Dec-2012

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