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Chaunskaya CHPP

Coal power plant in Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia. Approximate location 69.7044, 170.2903.

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Chaunskaya CHPP is a 34 MW coal power plant in Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia. It is operated by JSC "Chukotenergo". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 43,174 homes (estimated). It ranks #366 of 545 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).

34MW installed capacity
43,174homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061800.

~151,110 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

35,224passenger cars driven for a year
19,707homes' yearly energy use
2,518,500tree 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.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Russia

Reftinskaya GRES: 3,800 MW4kReftinskay…Berezovskaya GRES: 2,400 MW2kBerezovska…Troitskaya GRES: 2,234 MW2kTroitskaya…Novocherkasskaya GRES: 2,214 MW2kNovocherka…Kashirskaya GRES: 1,910 MW2kKashirskay…Primorskaya TPP: 1,467 MW1kPrimorskay…CHP-22: 1,310 MW1kCHP-22Krasnoyarskaya GRES-2: 1,250 MW1kKrasnoyars…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by JSC "Chukotenergo". All plants by this company →

Climate zone & how it works

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 69.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

~0°Ctypical annual mean
~14°Ctypical warm-season mean
Subarctic (boreal): very cold for most of the year

Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby plants

The #82 largest coal power plant of 96 in Russia by capacity.

Russia has 96 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 46,072 MW of capacity.

Location

Coordinates 69.7044, 170.2903 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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