Gökçekaya Dam is north of Alpu town east of province of Eskişehir in central Turkey and located downstream of Sarıyar Dam on the Sakarya River which runs into the Black Sea. The Yenice Dam is located downstream.
There is a hydroelectric power plant, established in 1972, at the dam, with a power output of 278 MW (three Francis turbines at 92.8 MW each), generating an average 562 GW·h of hydroelectricity annually.
The construction work on the dam and the power plant started in 1967 and was completed in 1973.
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