Demidovskaya power station — Russia

Demidovskaya power station is a 660 MW coal power station in Sverdlovsk, Russia. It ranks #118 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_demidovskaya_russi.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 660 MW, Demidovskaya power station is well above the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Shelved” — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #28 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.

Nearby power plants

• Verkhnetagilskaya · Gas · 1,062.2 MW · Sverdlovsk
• Ural Electrochemical Combine (Novouralsk) · nuclear · n/a MW · Sverdlovsk Oblast
• CHP Plant of OAO EVRAZ NTMK · Coal · 149.9 MW · Sverdlovsk
• Pervouralsk TEZ · Gas · 36 MW · Sverdlovsk
• TPP of OAO NPK "Uralvagonzavod" · Gas · 100 MW · Sverdlovsk
• Srednevralskaya · Gas · 1,569 MW · Sverdlovsk

Location

Coordinates 57.4156, 58.5464 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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