Historical Tarsus hydroelectric power plant
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The historical Tarsus hydroelectric power plant is a defunct hydroelectric power plant, notable for being the first hydroelectric plant in Turkey.
Tarsus is a populous ilçe (district) center in Mersin Province. The plant was in the Fahrettin Paşa neighborhood of Tarsus, in a place known as Bentbaşı, about 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) from Tarsus city center.
History
The plant was suggested by an Austrian engineer named Dörfler. According to a rumour the first suggestion was a plant in the capital Istanbul, which was rejected by the Ottoman sultan Abdülhamit II.[1] One of the sultan's viziers, Hulusi Pasha, who was of Tarsus origin, convinced the sultan to approve a plant in Tarsus, far from the capital. The plant was put into operation on 15 September 1902,[2] about 20 years later than the first commercial electricity production in the world.
