Balti Eleketrijaam is a 472 MW oil power station in Ida-Virumaa, Estonia. It ranks #3 of 18 Estonia power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 529,308 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 123k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 39.1% of Estonia's electricity; the national grid averages 319 gCO₂/kWh (59.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022392.
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: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
Technically it is described as Engine. Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
The #2 largest oil power plant of 2 in Estonia by capacity.
Estonia has 2 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,841 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 59.3533, 28.1185 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Balti Eleketrijaam is a 472 MW oil power plant in Ida-Virumaa, Estonia, Pre Construction 2028.
Balti Eleketrijaam has measured emissions of about 529,308 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
