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Apatitskaya TPP

Coal power plant in Murmansk, Russia. Approximate location 67.5981, 33.4228.

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Apatitskaya TPP is a 266 MW coal power station in Murmansk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "TGC-1". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 332,880 homes (estimated). It ranks #190 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1959, it is around 67 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, coal supplies about 18.4% of Russia's electricity; the national grid averages 450 gCO₂/kWh (35.7% low-carbon) (2025).

266MW installed capacity
332,880homes powered (est.)
1959commissioned (~67 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061647.

~1,165,080 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

271,580passenger cars driven for a year
151,941homes' yearly energy use
19,418,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Russia

Reftinskaya GRES: 3,800 MW4kReftinskay…Berezovskaya GRES: 2,400 MW2kBerezovska…Troitskaya GRES: 2,234 MW2kTroitskaya…Novocherkasskaya GRES: 2,214 MW2kNovocherka…Kashirskaya GRES: 1,910 MW2kKashirskay…Primorskaya TPP: 1,467 MW1kPrimorskay…CHP-22: 1,310 MW1kCHP-22Krasnoyarskaya GRES-2: 1,250 MW1kKrasnoyars…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by PJSC "TGC-1". All plants by this company →

Climate zone & how it works

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 67.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

~0°Ctypical annual mean
~14°Ctypical warm-season mean
Subarctic (boreal): very cold for most of the year

Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby plants

The #54 largest coal power plant of 96 in Russia by capacity.

Russia has 96 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 46,072 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 67.5981, 33.4228 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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