Gomel-2 CHP Power Plant Belarus is a 544 MW gas power station in Gomel, Belarus. It is operated by Gomelenergo RUE [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 613k homes (estimated). It ranks #8 of 29 Belarus power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1986, it is around 40 years old — long-established. In context, gas supplies about 54.5% of Belarus's electricity; the national grid averages 309 gCO₂/kWh (41.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0043035.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000406704); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 544 MW, Gomel-2 CHP Power Plant Belarus is well above the median gas plant in Belarus (205 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
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 Gomelenergo RUE [100%].
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 67% 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: 85/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #5 largest gas power plant of 18 in Belarus by capacity.
Belarus has 18 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 8,342 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.4492, 30.8167 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Gomel-2 CHP Power Plant Belarus is a 544 MW source-record gas power plant in Gomel, Belarus, commissioned in 1986.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 612,699 homes (estimated).
Gomel-2 CHP Power Plant Belarus is operated by Gomelenergo RUE [100%].
