Kardia power station is a 1,250 MW coal power station in West Macedonia, Greece. It ranks #3 of 99 Greece power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 4.7% of Greece's electricity; the national grid averages 315 gCO₂/kWh (49.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061092.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 1,250 MW, Kardia power station is well above the median coal plant in Greece (800 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Pre 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 #2 largest coal power plant of 8 in Greece by capacity.
Greece has 8 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 5,921 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 40.4102, 21.7856 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kardia power station is a 1,250 MW coal power plant in West Macedonia, Greece, Pre Construction 1978.
