Kabanskaya is a 15 MW solar power plant in Respublika Buryatiya, Russia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 6,382 homes (estimated). It ranks #450 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 0.2% 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 WKS0071447.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a monsoon subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.1°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 #18 largest solar power plant of 57 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 57 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 841 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.125, 106.52 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
