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Bishkek CHP Power Plant Kyrgyzstan

Coal power plant in Chuy, Kyrgyzstan. Approximate location 42.873, 74.6541.

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Bishkek CHP Power Plant Kyrgyzstan is a 674 MW coal power station in Chuy, Kyrgyzstan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 843,462 homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 8 Kyrgyzstan power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 12.6% of Kyrgyzstan's electricity; the national grid averages 153 gCO₂/kWh (84.7% low-carbon) (2025).

674MW installed capacity
843,462homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0041762.

~2,952,120 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

688,140passenger cars driven for a year
384,992homes' yearly energy use
49,202,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Local climate & thermal context

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 42.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

7.6°Cannual mean temp
3,930heating degree-days (base 18°C)
171cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,243 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -7 °CJF: -6 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 9 °CON: 2 °CND: -4 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 60% 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: 83/100 — 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.

Location

Coordinates 42.873, 74.6541 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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