Unimar Marmara Ereğlisi Power Plant
Unimar Marmara Ereğlisi Power Plant is a natural gas-fired power plant in Tekirdağ Province northwestern Turkey.
The electric power plant is situated at Sultanköy in Marmara Ereğlisi of Tekirdağ Province, around west of Istanbul. It is adjacent to the Marmara Ereğlisi LNG Storage Facility. It is a combined cycle plant with 480 MW installed power and 3.6 TW·h annual generation capacity. The power plant and its electrical substation were built by the Swedish ASEA Brown Boveri on a build–operate–transfer basis, and went in service in 1999. The construction cost US$360 million. The plant is owned by the Turkish private power producer Uni-Mar Co., which is co-owned by the Japanese Marubeni and the Belgian Unit International. The British energy company National Power is in charge of operation of the power plant.
The plant features advanced combined cycle technology with two 160-MW gas turbines and one steam turbine. Natural gas fired in the power plant is obtained from the state-owned crude oil and natural gas pipelines and trading company BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation, which operates the neighboring LNG storage facility. Generated electrical energy is sold to the state-owned electric utility TETAŞ.
