Ilısu Dam and Hydroelectric Plant
Dam and hydroelectric scheme, 10.6 km3 reservoir; 1,208.6 MW installed; 4,120 GWh/year in Turkey.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Turkey
- Location
- Dargeçit, Mardin
- Coordinates
- 37.532, 41.846
- Technology
- Dam and hydroelectric scheme
- Capacity
- 10.6 km3 reservoir; 1,208.6 MW installed; 4,120 GWh/year
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI)
- Contractor
- IC Ilisu consortium: Nurol Insaat and Cengiz Insaat (civil), Celikler Insaat, Andritz Hydro (electromechanical)
- Operator
- Elektrik Uretim A.S. (EUAS)
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2008
- Commissioned
- 2020-12
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2008
Electromechanical contract placed with Andritz Hydro
- 2019-06
Dry commissioning completed
- 2019-07
Reservoir impounding began
- 2020-05
First 200 MW unit commissioned on 19 May
- 2020-12
Plant reached full capacity
Sources
9 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- EUAS, Ilisu HEPP plant page. euas.gov.tr.
- Gives 1,208.6 MW (6 x 200.7 MW plus a 4.4 MW auxiliary unit), 10.6 billion m3 at maximum level 525 m, 313 km2 lake, concrete faced rockfill body 134 m high and 2,230 m long, 4,120 GWh/year, Mardin province 17 km east of Dargecit.
- ANDRITZ, Hydro News 33, Building a sustainable livelihood (Ilisu). andritz.com.
- Order received 2008, six 204 MW Francis units, dry commissioning June 2019, impounding from July 2019. Gruner AG project page, Ilisu dam and hydropower project. gruner.ch.
- Names the consortium (Nurol and Cengiz civil, Andritz Hydro, Stucky and Temelsu engineering) and Gruner as civil design group leader.
- Hydropower and Dams International, Turkey commissions first turbine at Ilisu dam. hydropower-dams.com.
- First unit on 19 May 2020. Daily Sabah, Turkey's Ilisu Dam on Tigris starts generating energy at full capacity, 24 December 2020. dailysabah.com.
- NS Energy project profile (bot-walled to curl, returns 403). nsenergybusiness.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
puts total expenditure at 1.2 billion euros.