Isalnita power station is a 630 MW coal power station in Dolj, Romania. It ranks #11 of 97 Romania power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1988, it is around 38 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 865,337 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 202k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 13.4% of Romania's electricity; the national grid averages 251 gCO₂/kWh (67.5% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019099.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 315 MW for Isalnita power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
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 GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 630 MW, Isalnita power station is well above the median coal plant in Romania (262 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.
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 #7 largest coal power plant of 20 in Romania by capacity.
Romania has 20 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 9,517 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 44.3886, 23.718 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Isalnita power station is a 630 MW coal power plant in Dolj, Romania, commissioned in 1988.
Isalnita power station has measured emissions of about 865,337 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
