This study mainly attempts to cast light into the dynamic relationships between coal consumption, economic growth, energy price and technological innovation in Turkey over the period of 1980-2015. Based on the results drawing from an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, coal consumption, economic growth, energy price and technological innovation are cointegrated. Specifically, the empirical results indicate that economic growth positively affects coal consumption, whereas technological innovation negatively affects it over a long-run. Regarding short-run dynamic relationships, economic growth and technological innovation have a positive impact on coal consumption. The results from the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model suggest that an annual average growth rate of coal consumption will be 2.02% between 2016 and 2025. Regarding policy implications, the results of this study suggest that policy makers should allocate more resources to research and development on energy technologies to improve energy efficiency in Turkey. Contribution/ Originality: This study is one of the few studies which have investigated coal consumptiongrowth nexus in a multivariate setting. Considering that technological innovation has not been incorporated by previous coal consumption-growth studies, this study contributes to the existing literature by incorporating technological innovation in the analysis. next three decades. The largest coal producing countries are China, the USA, India, Indonesia, Australia and South Africa (World Energy Council, 2016). Among other countries, Turkey is evaluated as being at medium levels in terms of the reserves and production amounts of coal and lignite in the world. Nearly, 3.2% (1.3 billion tons of coal and 17.3 billion tons of lignite) of the total world reserves of coal and lignite are in Turkey (Republic of Turkey Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, 2018). European Association for Coal and Lignite reports that in 2015,