Chelyabinsk CHP-2 power station is a 320 MW coal power station in Chelyabinsk, Russia. It is operated by Forward Energo PJSC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 400k homes (estimated). It ranks #244 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1964, it is around 62 years old — an older, legacy facility. 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_chelyabinskchp2_russi.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000104838; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 320 MW, Chelyabinsk CHP-2 power station is around the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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 Forward Energo PJSC [100%].
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 55.2°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 #69 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 55.155082, 61.497137 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Chelyabinsk CHP-2 power station is a 320 MW coal power plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia, commissioned in 1964.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 400,457 homes (estimated).
Chelyabinsk CHP-2 power station is operated by Forward Energo PJSC [100%].
