Oşkan Dam and HEPP

Project’s Overview

The Oşkan dam and hydroelectric power plant are situated on the mainstream of the Ceyhan River basin in Osmaniye province in southern Türkiye. The dam has a crest length of 350 meters across the river channel and a hydraulic height of 14.5 meters. It is the first stage of two (2) cascade water resource projects developed and implemented on this river under a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) structure for an operation period of 49 years by Enova Energy Company, jointly constituted by Özaltın and Nurol Investment Companies with their respective ownership stake at 50% each.

The low-head dam supports the power station with tripple pit-type horizontal axis Kaplan gravity flow turbines, driving generators with a rating of 8.3 MW each, for a total capacity of 25 MW, it produces 109 million kWh of clean, renewable energy a year. Construction of the project began in late 2007. All three (3) units were placed into commercial operation in 2010.