Karkamış Dam and Hydroelectric Plant
Dam and hydroelectric scheme, 156.9 hm3 reservoir; 189 MW installed; 652 GWh/year in Turkey.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Turkey
- Location
- Karkamış, Gaziantep
- Coordinates
- 36.868, 38.033
- Technology
- Dam and hydroelectric scheme
- Capacity
- 156.9 hm3 reservoir; 189 MW installed; 652 GWh/year
- Capital cost
- US$176 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI)
- Contractor
- Consortium including Yuksel Insaat
- Operator
- Elektrik Uretim A.S. (EUAS)
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1995
- Commissioned
- 1999-12
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1995-12
Construction started on 7 December
- 1999-12
Dam and plant inaugurated
Sources
6 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, Karkamis HEPP plant page. euas.gov.tr.
- Gives 189 MW (6 x 31.5 MW), 156.9 hm3 reservoir, 652 million kWh a year, clay core fill body 29 m above the stream bed and 1,608 m long with 2.1 million m3 of body volume, construction from 7 December 1995, completed 1999, Gaziantep, Euphrates basin.
- Yuksel Proje project page, Karkamis Dam and HEPP. yuksel.net.
- Describes it as Turkey's first run-of-river hydroelectric scheme and the second stage of the Border Euphrates Project, 4.5 km from the Syrian border.
- International Water Power and Dam Construction, The US$176.4M Karkamis dam and hydro power plant (bot-walled to curl, returns 403). waterpowermagazine.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.
Gives the cost and a December 1999 inauguration.