Aksa Göynük Thermal Plant, is commissioned on 14 August 2015 with the presence of Taner Yıldız, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, and İdris Güllüce, the Minister of Environment and Urbanisation. The plant will be generating energy from a local source, coal.
Aksa Göynük Thermal Plant, one of two plants commissioned by private sector in Turkey using coal, will provide 1% of Turkey's electricity requirement with its generation capacity of 270 MW.
