Yeniköy power station
Yeniköy power station is a 420 MW 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 in 2018 received 47 million lira capacity payments and 63 million in 2019. The area is a sulfur dioxide air pollution hotspot and as of 2017 the air pollution caused by Yeniköy and neighboring Yatağan power station and Kemerköy 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.
