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Irkutsk TPP-1

Coal power plant in Irkutsk, Russia. Approximate location 52.5656, 103.9317.

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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 231,514 homes (estimated). It ranks #222 of 545 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).

185MW installed capacity
231,514homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061827.

~810,300 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

188,881passenger cars driven for a year
105,673homes' yearly energy use
13,505,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Russia

Reftinskaya GRES: 3,800 MW4kReftinskay…Berezovskaya GRES: 2,400 MW2kBerezovska…Troitskaya GRES: 2,234 MW2kTroitskaya…Novocherkasskaya GRES: 2,214 MW2kNovocherka…Kashirskaya GRES: 1,910 MW2kKashirskay…Primorskaya TPP: 1,467 MW1kPrimorskay…CHP-22: 1,310 MW1kCHP-22Krasnoyarskaya GRES-2: 1,250 MW1kKrasnoyars…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO". All plants by this company →

Climate zone & how it works

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.

~0°Ctypical annual mean
~16°Ctypical warm-season mean
Monsoon subarctic: four distinct seasons — cold winters and warm summers

Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby plants

The #63 largest coal power plant of 96 in Russia by capacity.

Russia has 96 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 46,072 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 52.5656, 103.9317 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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