Baruun-Urt power station is a 70 MW coal power plant in Sükhbaatar, Mongolia. It is operated by Province of Sukhbaatar; Grand Zotol Energy LLC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 88k homes (estimated). It ranks #19 of 25 Mongolia power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 85.8% of Mongolia's electricity; the national grid averages 816 gCO₂/kWh (8.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_baruunurt_mongo.
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 70 MW, Baruun-Urt power station is below the median coal plant in Mongolia (450 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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 Province of Sukhbaatar; Grand Zotol Energy LLC.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 46.7°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 #19 largest coal power plant of 20 in Mongolia by capacity.
Mongolia has 20 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 12,669 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 46.657543, 113.31355 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Baruun-Urt power station is a 70 MW coal power plant in Sükhbaatar, Mongolia, Announced 2028.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 87,600 homes (estimated).
Baruun-Urt power station is operated by Province of Sukhbaatar; Grand Zotol Energy LLC.
