Chaunskaya-2 power station is a 50 MW coal power plant in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is operated by Chukotenergo JSC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 63k homes (estimated). It ranks #464 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. 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_chaunskaya2_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 50 MW, Chaunskaya-2 power station is below the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). 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 Chukotenergo JSC [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a polar tundra climate (Köppen ET) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 68.8°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 #110 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 68.809724, 173.854552 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Chaunskaya-2 power station is a 50 MW coal power plant in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, Announced 2029.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 62,571 homes (estimated).
Chaunskaya-2 power station is operated by Chukotenergo JSC [100%].
