Kaunas CHP Power Plant Lithuania is a 170 MW gas power station in Kaunas, Lithuania. It ranks #6 of 10 Lithuania power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1976, it is around 50 years old — long-established. In context, gas supplies about 16.5% of Lithuania's electricity; the national grid averages 138 gCO₂/kWh (77.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0042165.
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 170 MW, Kaunas CHP Power Plant Lithuania is around the median gas plant in Lithuania (170 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #3 largest gas power plant of 6 in Lithuania by capacity.
Lithuania has 6 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 2,593 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 54.9212, 24.018 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kaunas CHP Power Plant Lithuania is a 170 MW gas power plant in Kaunas, Lithuania, commissioned in 1976.
