IRU Elektrijaam is a 207 MW gas power station in Harju, Estonia. It ranks #5 of 18 Estonia power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 1,835 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 428 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 1.3% of Estonia's electricity; the national grid averages 319 gCO₂/kWh (59.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022396.
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The public capacity above is a source-verified 2026 capacity claim: 207 MW for IRU Elektrijaam power station.
GEM · 2026 · operating plant capacity
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 · 2026 · L100000400075; fuel: WRI GPPD
Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
The #2 largest gas power plant of 2 in Estonia by capacity.
Estonia has 2 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 458 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 59.4514, 24.9246 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
IRU Elektrijaam is a 207 MW gas power plant in Harju, Estonia, Announced 1982.
IRU Elektrijaam has measured emissions of about 1,835 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
