Baikal power station is a 49 MW coal power plant in Irkutsk, Russia. It is operated by Municipality of Baikal [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 61k homes (estimated). It ranks #465 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1965, it is around 61 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_baikal_russi.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 49 MW, Baikal power station is below the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Municipality of Baikal [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 51.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #111 largest coal power plant of 127 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 127 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 64,498 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.515241, 104.18047 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Baikal power station is a 49 MW coal power plant in Irkutsk, Russia, commissioned in 1965.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 61,320 homes (estimated).
Baikal power station is operated by Municipality of Baikal [100%].
