Iriklinskaya is a 2,460 MW gas power station in Orenburg, Russia. It is operated by JSC INTER RAO-Electric Power Generation. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2.8 million homes (estimated). It ranks #28 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1970, it is around 56 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, gas supplies about 44.7% 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 WRI1003711.
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 operating-unit sum (location L100000407201); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 2,460 MW, Iriklinskaya is well above the median gas plant in Russia (200 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. 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 JSC INTER RAO-Electric Power Generation. All plants by this company →
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 51.8°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 #8 largest gas power plant of 338 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 338 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 145,594 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.754, 58.8033 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Iriklinskaya is a 2,460 MW source-record gas power plant in Orenburg, Russia, commissioned in 1970.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 2,770,662 homes (estimated).
Iriklinskaya is operated by JSC INTER RAO-Electric Power Generation.
