Oşkan Dam and HEPP

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.