Coal power plant in Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan. Approximate location 50.0467, 73.0532.
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Karaganda TPS-2 power station is a 435 MW coal power station in Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan. It ranks #35 of 80 Kazakhstan power plants by installed capacity. 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 WRI1075832.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000102981; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 435 MW, Karaganda TPS-2 power station is around the median coal plant in Kazakhstan (435 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — 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.
The #16 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 50.0467, 73.0532 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Karaganda TPS-2 power station is a 435 MW coal power plant in Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan, Construction 1976.
