Irkutsk TPP-1 is a 185 MW coal power station in Irkutsk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 232k homes (estimated). It ranks #315 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1959, it is around 67 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 WRI1061827.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 185 MW, Irkutsk TPP-1 is below 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 PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO". All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a monsoon subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.6°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 #88 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 52.5656, 103.9317 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Irkutsk TPP-1 is a 185 MW source-record coal power plant in Irkutsk, Russia, commissioned in 1959.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 231,514 homes (estimated).
Irkutsk TPP-1 is operated by PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO".
