Kemerköy power station
Kemerköy power station is a 630 MW coal-fired power station in Turkey in Kemerköy, Muğla, completed in 1985, which burns lignite mined locally.
The plant is owned by Limak- IC İçtaş and in 2018 received 70 million lira capacity payments. The area is a sulfur dioxide air pollution hotspot and as of 2017 the air pollution caused by Kemerköy and neighboring Yatağan power station and Yeniköy power station is estimated to have caused 45,000 premature deaths. The plant would have to be upgraded to meet the 2020 emission standard. In 2019 local people protested against 48 villages being destroyed by expansion of the mine feeding the plant.
