Balti Eleketrijaam is a 472 MW oil power station in Ida-Virumaa, Estonia. Based on reported annual generation of 1,576 GWh, it can supply roughly 450,257 homes. It ranks #2 of 17 Estonia power plants by installed capacity. 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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 59.4°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 93% above 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: 92/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
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.
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.
