Aiming to make Mersin a cleaner and more livable city every passing day with the value it gives to the environment and nature; Mersin Metropolitan Municipality, which converts the city's solid waste into electricity thanks to the Solid Waste Regular Storage Facilities located in Göksu in Silifke, Gürlü in Tarsus and Sarıibrahimli in Akdeniz, is increasing the capacities of the facilities.
By adding new gas engines to the electrical energy production area of the Solid Waste Regular Storage Facility located in Sarıibrahimli Neighborhood, the Metropolitan Municipality increased the installed power of the facility in this area by 22 percent, thus increasing the installed power of all fields to a total of 20,2 megawatts per hour. Thus, the Metropolitan Municipality can currently produce 15 megawatts of electricity per hour. The Metropolitan Municipality will continue to improve its fields and produce more electrical energy.
While contributing to the economy with the energy produced, the climate crisis is also being combated.
The Zero Waste Management Branch Directorate of the Climate Change and Zero Waste Department carries out the re-evaluation, storage and disposal of solid waste throughout Mersin, preventing environmental pollution with the understanding of 'Clean Environment, Clean World, Clean Energy'. Thus, the Metropolitan Municipality, which reduces the negative effects of this situation on human health to the maximum extent, also uses methane gas, one of the harmful gases released from waste, to produce electricity and thus reduces the greenhouse gas effect. With this production, the Metropolitan Municipality both combats the climate crisis and contributes to the economy with the electricity it produces in its facilities.
In 2024, the metropolitan municipality produced electricity equivalent to the lighting energy of 115 thousand households
The Metropolitan Municipality continues to rapidly evaluate the domestic waste generated in the city, create economic value and eliminate negative environmental impacts. The Metropolitan Municipality, which includes the Göksu Solid Waste Regular Storage Facility in Silifke District, the Gürlü Solid Waste Regular Storage Facility in Tarsus District and the Merkez Solid Waste Regular Storage Facility in Sarıibrahimli Neighborhood in Akdeniz District, disposed of a total of 2024 thousand 719 tons of domestic solid waste in these facilities in 209.
The Metropolitan Municipality, which ensured that 9 thousand 2024 tons of household waste was transported to 609 solid waste regular storage facilities in 310 with 3 transfer stations it established in the districts, produced an average of 11 megawatts of electricity per hour in the Biogas Electricity Generation Facilities in the Center, Silifke and Tarsus Solid Waste Regular Storage Facilities and produced a total of 115 thousand 94 megawatts of electricity throughout the year, equivalent to the lighting energy of 334 thousand households.
Mersin Metropolitan Municipality has increased the installed power of the facility in Sarıibrahimli by adding new gas engines to the electricity generation area by 2025 percent as of 22. Thus, the installed power of all fields has been increased to a total of 20,2 megawatts per hour. The metropolitan municipality will continue to improve its fields and produce more electricity.
Kula: “We aim to increase our electricity production capacity regularly”
Aslıhan Kula, an Electrical and Electronics Engineer working at the Climate Change and Zero Waste Department, explained the journey of 3 Regular Storage Facilities and the separation of garbage from disposal points to electricity production points. Kula, who stated that they wanted to regularly increase their production capacity as a metropolitan municipality, said, “By adding 2 more units to our electricity production facility in our central area, we increased the electricity production capacity of our entire facility to 20,2 megawatts. In 2024, we produced 94 thousand megawatts of electricity and produced electricity equivalent to the lighting energy of 115 thousand households. With our increasing capacity, we will continue to produce by adding to this production. Garbage is not a problem for us, it will provide a return to our city as production.”
Kula added that the Metropolitan Municipality’s investments in renewable energy will continue, “We also produce electricity using renewable energy sources. In this way, we contribute to the economy of our country and municipality. The climate crisis in the world continues to be a problem for all humanity. In this context, we continue to produce by using methane gas as a raw material in electricity production and minimizing its harmful effects. In this way, we contribute to our world, climate and environment.”
