Coal power plant in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Approximate location 50.089267, 72.918005.
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Karaganda-1 power station is a 84 MW coal power plant in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. It is operated by Bassel Group LLS LLP [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 105k homes (estimated). It ranks #70 of 80 Kazakhstan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1942, it is around 84 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, coal supplies about 54.3% of Kazakhstan's electricity; the national grid averages 805 gCO₂/kWh (14.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_karaganda1_kazak.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000104561; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 84 MW, Karaganda-1 power station is below the median coal plant in Kazakhstan (435 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 Bassel Group LLS LLP [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.1°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).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #30 largest coal power plant of 32 in Kazakhstan by capacity.
Kazakhstan has 32 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 20,941 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.089267, 72.918005 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Karaganda-1 power station is a 84 MW coal power plant in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, commissioned in 1942.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 105,120 homes (estimated).
Karaganda-1 power station is operated by Bassel Group LLS LLP [100%].
