Production stopped at the 37-year-old power plant: Approximately a thousand workers were put on leave

Kangal Thermal Power Plant, which started producing electricity in the Kangal district of Sivas in 1989, was privatized on February 8, 2013 and transferred to Konya Şeker, a subsidiary of TORKU. The power plant, which has an annual electricity production power of 1 million 908 thousand 229 MWh, was on the agenda in 2020 with its unfiltered chimneys.

On the instructions of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, production at the power plant was stopped on January 1, 2020, on the grounds that it could not meet the conditions regarding the filter. With the completion of the necessary filtering processes in the chimneys, electricity production was restarted with a single turbine 30 days later, and at full capacity after 6 months.

PRODUCTION STOPPED, WORKERS WERE ON LEAVE

The power plant has come to the fore in recent years with the environmental pollution and economic problems it causes. The power plant, which has been the scene of many workers' protests, stopped its production in the evening today because the coal consumed could not be paid and the coal supply was cut off. Nearly a thousand workers were given paid and unpaid leave.

A LETTER WAS SENT TO CMB

The company announced that it had to stop production in an official letter sent to the Capital Markets Board (CMB). The following statements were included in the article: