Oil power plant in Mingacevir City, Azerbaijan. Approximate location 40.78, 46.9901.
OilMingacevir CityAzerbaijanCCGT · HRSGAnsaldo Energia: AE94.3A
Azerbaijan TPP is a 2,400 MW oil power station in Mingacevir City, Azerbaijan. It is operated by AzerEnerji. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.8 million homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 22 Azerbaijan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1990, it is around 36 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 0.2% of Azerbaijan's electricity; the national grid averages 632 gCO₂/kWh (12.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002179.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000406946); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG); Ansaldo Energia: AE94.3A. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Operated by AzerEnerji. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 20% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 42/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
Azerbaijan has 1 oil power plant in this dataset, together about 2,400 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 40.78, 46.9901 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Azerbaijan TPP is a 2,400 MW source-record oil power plant in Mingacevir City, Azerbaijan, commissioned in 1990.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,802,057 homes (estimated).
Azerbaijan TPP is operated by AzerEnerji.
