G-07 Due to the increasing energy requirement in the first years of the Türkiye Republic, it was decided to establish a power plant in Çatalağzı region of Zonguldak. An agreement was made with a British company in 1940 for the installation of the power plant, which is called “Işıkveren” and will generate electricity by burning powdered coals, but its construction was delayed due to the Second World War.

Işıkveren Power Plant, the construction of which started as Turkey's second thermal power plant after Silahtarağa and the first thermal power plant in the Republican period, was put into operation on 27 November 1948 with a total capacity of 64,500 Kwh. With the increasing electricity requirement over time, new units were added to the power plant and thus its capacity was increased. Ereğli, Izmit and Ümraniye transformers were installed with an energy transmission line of approximately 288 kilometers, and the power plant met the energy needs of the Western Black Sea and Marmara regions, especially in Istanbul, Kocaeli and Sakarya. Işıkveren Power Plant contributed not only to the industrialization of the country, but also to the establishment of the interconnected system. Thus, the power plant, which has an important place in the history of the city, was introduced to many guests from abroad as the "modern face of developing and industrializing Turkey". Social facilities such as personnel lodgings and guesthouses in the immediate vicinity of the power plant, which was decommissioned in 1991 on the grounds that it had completed its economic life, still continue to serve today.